Command Line Interface Modes Overview; User Execution Mode; Privileged Mode; Accessing The Cli Of An Access Point - Proxim ORiNOCO AP-8000 User Manual

Using CLI to Manage the Access Point

Command Line Interface Modes Overview

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Command Line Interface Modes Overview
The Command Line Interface (CLI) is divided into different command modes. Each command mode has its own set of
commands that manage the network operations. The commands that are available depends on the mode that you are in.
CLI operates in two main modes:
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User Execution Mode

•

Privileged Mode

User Execution Mode
The moment you log into device, with Username and Password, you are presented with the User EXEC mode. In this
mode, you can only view the configuration. For configuring the device one has to be in the privileged mode which can be
entered by executing the "enable" command from the USER Exec Mode.
Example:
Device-Name>
To find more commands in this mode, type question mark (?).
Device-Name>?
Possible completions:
disable: Turn off privileged commands
enable: Turn on privileged commands
exit: Exit from EXEC
show: Show
To use the privileged mode, you need to type "enable" command from User Exec mode.
Device-Name>enable
Privileged Mode
In this mode, you can view all the configured parameters of the device. This mode is identified by a pound sign (#) at the
command prompt.
Example:
Device-Name#
To configure any parameter in this mode, you need to enter global configuration mode by using "configure" command.
Example:
Device-Name#configure
Device-Name(config)#
This brings the CLI into a special mode called "Global Configuration Mode" where full access permissions are allowed for
the user to configure any available configuration of the device through CLI. The Command prompt of this mode uses an
interactive hierarchical format which shows the configuration level the user is in and with its name.

Accessing the CLI of an Access Point

You can use the following methods to access the CLI of an Access Point:
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