Console Interface; Power On Self Test; Figure 67. Cli Interface - Asus GIGAX2024 User Manual

GigaX2024/2048 L2 Managed Switch User Manual

5 Console Interface

This chapter describes how to use console interface to configure the switch. The
switch provides RS232 and USB connectors to connect your PC. Use a terminal
emulator on your PC such as HyperTerminal and command line interpreter to
configure the switch. You have to set up the terminal emulator with baud rate
9600, 8 bit data, no parity, and 1 stop bit, and no flow control.
Once you enter CLI mode, type "?" will display all available command help
messages. This is very useful when you are not familiar with the CLI commands.
The CLI mode times out when idle for 10 minutes. You have to login again to
enter CLI mode after the timeout.
All the CLI commands are case sensitive. In order to make them easier to
use, you can enter into different category by typing the full command, then this
category becomes your working category. Thereafter, you donʼt have to type "sys"
before any sub-commands. For example, "sys" is a command category including
a lot of sub-commands. You donʼt have to type "sys" for the sub-commands
once you change your working category to "sys" by typing "sys". The prompt will
become "(system name)sys%" when your working category is "sys".

5.1 Power On Self Test

POST is executing during the system booting time. It tests system memory, LED
and hardware chips on the switchboard. It displays system information as the
result of system test and initialization. You can ignore the information until the
prompt, "(GigaX)%", appears (see Figure 67).

Figure 67. CLI interface

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