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Accessing the Command Line Interface

There are four ways of accessing the Exinda CLI (in order of preference):

Secure Shell (SSH) (recommended)
Exinda Web UI
Telnet
Serial Console Interface

Use this tool to connect to the Exinda appliance's Command Line Interface (CLI) from the Web UI. This tool connects to the appliance via the web interface and does not require SSH access.

Click Configuration > System > Tools > Console.
Type the appliance username and password at the prompts. Do one of the following:

To enter privileged EXEC (enable) mode, at the prompt type the following command:

hostname > enable

The hostname # prompt is displayed.
To enter configuration (config) mode, at the prompt type the following commands:

hostname # configure terminal

The hostname (config)# prompt is displayed.