Setting verbose/terse mode for the user interface – Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions Omni Switch/Router User Manual

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General User Interface Guidelines

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Setting Verbose/Terse Mode for the User Interface

Enabling Verbose Mode

When verbose mode is enabled, you are not required to enter a question mark in order to
view the switch’s configuration menus. Instead, menus are displayed automatically. For exam-
ple, if verbose mode is enabled and you enter

summary

at the user prompt, the Summary menu will be displayed automatically, as shown below:

Command

Summary Menu

ss

Display MIB-II System group variables

sc

OmniSwitch chassis summary

si

Current interface status

Main

File

Summary VLAN

Networking

Interface Security

System

Services

Help

The switch’s default verbose mode setting is

off

, or disabled. To enable verbose mode, type

uic

at the user prompt and press

<Enter>

.

A screen similar to the following will be displayed.

UI Configuration

1) Prompt : ‘$Menu-Path% ’
2) More

: on

21) Lines

: 22 lines

3) Verbose : off
4) Timeout : 5 minutes

Command {Item=Value/?/Help?Quit?Redraw?Save} (Redraw) :

Next, type

3=on

at the submenu prompt and press

<Enter>

. The screen will be redrawn. Note

that verbose mode is now set to

on

.

UI Configuration

1) Prompt : ‘$Menu-Path% ’
2) More

: on

21) Lines

: 22 lines

3) Verbose : on
4) Timeout : 5 minutes

Command {Item=Value/?/Help?Quit?Redraw?Save} (Redraw) :

Type

save

at the submenu prompt and press

<Enter>

. You will be returned to the user

prompt. Verbose mode is now enabled.

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