Cisco Catalyst 4500 series Administration Manual page 462

Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy
Once you enter the standby virtual console, the terminal prompt automatically changes to
hostname-standby-console where hostname is the configured name of the switch. The prompt is restored
to the original setting when you exit the virtual console.
You exit the virtual console with the exit or quit commands. When the inactivity period of the terminal
on the active supervisor engine where you logged in exceeds the configured idle time, you are
automatically logged out of the terminal on the active supervisor engine. In this instance, the virtual
console session is also terminated. Virtual console session is also automatically terminated when the
standby is rebooted. After the standby boots up, you need to create another virtual console session.
To log in to the standby supervisor engine using a virtual console, do the following:
Switch# session module 4
Connecting to standby virtual console
Type "exit" or "quit" to end this session
Switch-standby-console# exit
Switch#
If the standby console is not enabled, the following message appears:
Switch-standby-console#
Standby console disabled.
Valid commands are: exit, logout
The standby virtual console provides the standard features that are available from the supervisor console
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such as command history, command completion, command help and partial command keywords.
The following limitations apply to the standby virtual console:
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Synchronizing the Supervisor Engine Configurations
To manually synchronize the configurations used by the two supervisor engines, perform this task on the
active supervisor engine:
Software Configuration Guide—Release IOS XE 3.6.0E and IOS 15.2(2)E
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Chapter 11 Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy Using RPR and SSO on Supervisor Engine 7-E, Supervisor
All commands on the virtual console run to completion. It does not provide the auto-more feature;
it behaves as if the terminal length 0 command has been executed. It is also non-interactive.
Therefore, a running command cannot be interrupted or aborted by any key sequence on the active
supervisor engine. If a command produces considerable output, the virtual console displays it on the
supervisor engine screen.
The virtual console is non-interactive. Because the virtual console does not detect the interactive
nature of a command, any command that requires user interaction causes the virtual console to wait
until the RPC timer aborts the command.
The virtual console timer is set to 60 seconds. The virtual console returns to its prompt after 60
seconds. During this time, you cannot abort the command from the key board. You must wait for the
timer to expire before you continue.
You cannot use virtual console to view debug and syslog messages that are being displayed on the
standby supervisor engine. The virtual console only displays the output of commands that are
executed from the virtual console. Other information that is displayed on the real standby console
does not appear on the virtual console.
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