Nortel Passport 8250 User manual

Passport 8250
Command Line Interface
Guide
241-5101-201

Passport 8250
Command Line Interface
Guide
Publication: 241-5101-201
Document status: Standard
Document version: R2.2
Document date: October 1999
Copyright © 1999 Nortel Networks.
All Rights Reserved.
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NORTEL, NORTEL NETWORKS, the globemark design, the NORTEL NETWORKS corporate
logo, and PASSPORT are trademarks of Nortel Networks.

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Passport 8250 Command Line Interface Guide R2.2
Publication history
October 1999
R2.2 Standard
Commercial availability.

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Passport 8250 Command Line Interface Guide R2.2
Contents
About this document 11
Who should read this guide 11
What you need to know 11
How this guide is organized 11
Conventions 12
Documentation conventions 12
Symbol conventions 13
Related documents 13
Passport 13
NMS 14
Requests for Comments (RFC) 14
Nortel support services 14
Chapter 1
Introducing the Passport 8250 15
Passport 8250 15
Typical applications 16
Benefits 16
Main features 17
Management information bases (MIB) 17
Circuit emulation services (CES) 17
Provisioning tools 18
Reference clock configuration 20
Constant bit rate (CBR) clocking 20
Fault management 20
Flash file system 20

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Chapter 2
Getting started with the CLI 21
Introducing the CLI 21
CLI screen 22
CLI prompt 22
Accessing the CLI 23
CLI priority 23
Logging into the CLI 23
Changing the password 24
Accessing a board in the CLI 24
Getting help in the CLI 25
Logging out of the CLI 26
Restarting Passport 8250 device using the CLI 26
CLI commands 27
Command syntax 29
Abbreviations 30
Uppercase and lowercase 30
Chapter 3
Provisioning ports and connections 31
Modifying port settings 31
Changing port configuration settings 33
Viewing port configuration settings 33
Creating connections 35
VPI/VCI assignments 36
Time slots 36
Signal mode 36
CBR clocking 37
Using the map command 37
Creating unstructured connections 41
Creating structured Basic and structured CAS connections 42
Viewing connections mapped to ports 45
Searching by port number 45
Searching by VPI or VPI/VCI 47
Deleting connections 49

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Chapter 4
Other activities in the CLI 51
Checking for network connectivity 51
Configuring the ATM uplink port for in-band management 52
Configuring the redundant ATM uplink port 54
Configuring the redundant ATM uplink port for automatic
switching 55
Configuring the redundant ATM uplink port for manual
switching 57
Modifying boot parameters 58
Modifying the community strings 58
Viewing alarm and information messages 59
Viewing faults in the fault log 60
Viewing entries in the fault log 61
Deleting entries in the fault log 62
Viewing system information 62
Viewing the status of the boards 62
viewing the software version 63
Chapter 5
Flash file system 65
Directory structure 65
Flash file system commands 68
Loading a different software version 68
Downloading software 69
Appendix A
Time slots 71
Converting time slots to hexadecimal format 71
Appendix B
MIBs 79
Enterprise MIB 79
Board 80
Port 80
SnmpManager 81

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CES VC set-up 82
Software load management 83
Uplink redundancy 83
Reference clock management 85
Fault log 85
Standard MIBs 86
Index 91