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Stack System Name and Prompt
Stack System Name and Prompt
If you are accessing a stack member through the active switch, you must use the session stack-member-number
privileged EXEC command. The stack member number range is . When you use this command, the stack
member number is appended to the system prompt. For example, Switch-2# is the prompt in privileged EXEC
mode for stack member 2, and the system prompt for the switch stack is Switch.
Default System Name and Prompt Configuration
The default switch system name and prompt is Switch.
DNS
The DNS protocol controls the Domain Name System (DNS), a distributed database with which you can map
hostnames to IP addresses. When you configure DNS on your device, you can substitute the hostname for the
IP address with all IP commands, such as ping, telnet, connect, and related Telnet support operations.
IP defines a hierarchical naming scheme that allows a device to be identified by its location or domain. Domain
names are pieced together with periods (.) as the delimiting characters. For example, Cisco Systems is a
commercial organization that IP identifies by a com domain name, so its domain name is cisco.com. A specific
device in this domain, for example, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) system is identified as ftp.cisco.com.
To keep track of domain names, IP has defined the concept of a domain name server, which holds a cache
(or database) of names mapped to IP addresses. To map domain names to IP addresses, you must first identify
the hostnames, specify the name server that is present on your network, and enable the DNS.
Default DNS Settings
Table 1: Default DNS Settings
Feature
DNS enable state
DNS default domain name
DNS servers
Login Banners
You can configure a message-of-the-day (MOTD) and a login banner. The MOTD banner is displayed on all
connected terminals at login and is useful for sending messages that affect all network users (such as impending
system shutdowns).
The login banner is also displayed on all connected terminals. It appears after the MOTD banner and before
the login prompts.
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this section, see the Cisco IOS
Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 12.4.
System Management Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS XE Gibraltar 16.10.x (Catalyst 9200 Switches)
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Default Setting
Enabled.
None configured.
No name server addresses are configured.
Administering the Device