The SLX-OS CLI uses an industry-standard hierarchical shell familiar to networking administrators.
Privileged EXEC mode supports all clear, show, and debug commands. In addition, you can enter some configuration commands that do not make changes to the system configuration. The following example shows the privileged EXEC prompt. At this prompt, you issue the configure terminal command to enter global configuration mode.
device# configure terminal device(config)#
Global configuration mode supports commands that can change the device configuration. For any changes to be persistent, you must save the system configuration before rebooting the device. The global configuration mode provides access to sub-configuration modes for individual interfaces, VLANs, routing protocols, and other configuration areas. The following example shows how you access the interface sub-configuration mode by issuing the interface command with a specified interface.
device(config)# interface ethernet 0/1 device(config-if-eth-0/1)#