Getting Help With Cli Commands - Cabletron Systems IA1100 User's Reference Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

Getting Help with CLI Commands

Interactive help is available from the CLI by entering the question mark (?) character at
any time. The help is context-sensitive; the help provided is based on where in the
command you are. For example, if you are at the User mode prompt, enter a question
mark (?), as shown in the following example, to list the commands available in User
mode:
ia> ?
aging
cli
enable
exit
file
help
ip-redundancy
l2-tables
logout
multicast
ping
pvst
statistics
stp
telnet
traceroute
vlan
You can also type the ? character following a command to see a description of the
parameters or options that you can enter. Once the help information is displayed, the
command line is redisplayed as before but without the ? character. The following is an
example of invoking help while entering a command:
ia(config)# load-balance create ?
group-name
vip-range-name
ia(config)# load-balance create
If you enter enough characters of a command keyword to uniquely identify it and press
the space bar, the CLI attempts to complete the command. If you do not enter enough
characters or you enter the wrong characters, the CLI cannot complete the command. For
example, if you enter the following in Enable mode and press the spacebar as indicated:
ia# system show e[space]
the CLI completes the command as follows:
ia# system show environmental
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- Show L2 and L3 Aging information
- Modify the command line interface behavior
- Enable privileged user mode
- Exit current mode
- File manipulation commands
- Describe online help facility
- Show IP Redundancy information (VRRP)
- Show L2 Tables information
- Log off the system
- Configure Multicast related parameters
- Ping utility
- Show Per Vlan Spanning Tree Protocol (PVST)
parameters
- Show or clear IA statistics
- Show STP status
- Telnet utility
- Traceroute utility
- Show VLAN-related parameters
- Name of this Load Balanced group of servers
- Name of this Virtual IP range
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