Alteon OS Command Reference
Chapter 8: The Boot Options Menu
33740M2420, April 2007
Resetting the Switch
You can reset the switch to make your software image file and configuration block changes occur.
NOTE – Resetting the switch causes the Spanning Tree Group to restart. This process can be
lengthy, depending on the topology of your network.
NOTE – Resetting the switch causes the date and time to revert to default values.
Use /cfg/sys/date and /cfg/sys/time to reenter the current date and time.
To reset the switch, at the Boot Options# prompt, enter:
You are prompted to confirm your request.
Accessing the ISCLI
The default command-line interface for the GbESM is the Alteon OS CLI. To access the
ISCLI, enter the following command and reset the GbESM:
To access the Alteon OS CLI, enter the following command from the ISCLI and reload the
GbESM:
Users can select the CLI mode upon login, if the /boot/prompt command is enabled. Only
an administrator connected through the console port can view and enable /boot/prompt.
When /boot/prompt is enabled, the first user to log in can select the CLI mode. Subse-
quent users must use the selected CLI mode, until all users have logged out.
>> Boot Options# reset
Main# boot/mode iscli
Router(config)# boot cli-mode aos