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Command Line Interface
Accessing the Command Line Interface
There are two ways to access the Command Line Interface—either by directly connecting a serial console
to the serial port on an Access Controller, Access Control Server, or Integrated Access Manager, or by
connecting to the system remotely using SSH.
Connecting with a Serial Console
The Serial Console is a terminal emulator running on another management computer. For details on
connecting a serial console, see the section “Installation Using the Command Line Interface” in the
Installation Guide for your 700wl Series system.
When the serial console establishes a connection, it displays a message “
Press return for console:”
When you press return, you are prompted for your administrator login ID and password.
To exit the Serial Console, type the command:
exit
Connecting Using SSH
You can access the Command Line Interface on a 700wl Series system unit over the network, rather than
by connecting to the serial port, by connecting via SSH to the IP address of the unit at port 22. You log
in using the built-in administrator username and password for the unit (by default this is username
admin, password admin.
Note: There are a number of commands, executed either from the CLI or from the Administrative
Console, that cause a global restart and will terminate a running SSH session. These include
commands such as changing the NAT DHCP settings, enabling or disabling SSH for Wireless Data
Privacy, changing the Access Control Server IP address on an Access Controller, or enabling or
disabling Technical Support access. In addition, upgrading a flash-based Access Controller shuts down
the SSH subsystem.
Using the CLI on an Integrated Access Manager
Within the CLI, some commands are supported only on an Access Control Server, others only on an
Access Controller. An Integrated Access Manager includes both Access Control Server and Access
Controller functionality, but each portion functions independently. In order to execute Access Control
Server-only commands on an Integrated Access Manager, you must be connected to the Access Control
Server portion. Likewise, you must connect to the Access Controller portion to execute Access Controller-
only commands.
The CLI provides two commands,
cli ACS and cli AC, to connect you to the Access Control Server or
Access Controller portions of an Integrated Access Manager. To execute Access Controller-only
commands, you must first connect to the Access Controller portion with the
cli AC command. To
subsequently execute Access Control Server-only commands, you must reconnect to the Access Control
Server portion with the
cli ACS command.
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