Appendix A: Command Modes; Enable Mode; User Mode - Dell PowerConnect W-7200 Series Reference Manual

The ArubaOS command-line interface offers different levels of user access by differentiating between different
command modes.
When you first log in to the CLI, you start your session in User mode , which provides only limited access for basic
operational testing. You must enter an additional password to access Enable mode, which allows you to issue show
commands run certain management functions. Configuration commands can only be issued in Config mode . You can
access Config mode by entering
mode and return to a lower-level command mode at any time by entering exit at the command prompt.
The following sections describes how to access each command mode, the command prompt for each mode, and links
to its available commands.

User mode

You always begin a CLI session in user mode, the command mode with the lowest level of user access. The
command prompt for a user mode session is a greater-than (>) symbol:
(host) >
The following commands are available in user mode.
enable
l
exit
l
help
l
logout
l
ping
l
traceroute
l

Enable Mode

To move from user mode to enable mode, you must enter the command enable, press Enter, then enter config mode
password that was defined during the controller's initial setup process. (The default password is enable.) Users in
enable mode may return to user mode at any time by entering the command exit.
The command prompt for a CLI session in enable mode is a pound (#) symbol:
(host) #
To view a list of commands available in enable mode, access the CLI in enable mode and enter a question mark (?):
(host) #?
Some top-level commands have different sets of subcommands available in Enable or Config mode. To view a list of
available subcommands in Enable mode, access the CLI in Enable mode, enter the top level command, then enter a
question mark (?). For example, the following example shows which aaa commands are available in Enable mode:
(host) #aaa ?
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Appendix A:
Command Modes
at the command prompt. You can exit your current command
configure terminal

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