Cisco Switch Commands

The Cisco switch IOS have different EXEC modes with distinctive prompts. You can use these modes for executing different Cisco switch commands. Each mode has a set of specific commands.

The fundamentals of Cisco IOS User Interface are as follows :

• Uses a command line interface
• Operations vary on different series of switches
• Type or paste entries in the console command modes
• Enter key instructs device to parse and execute the commands
• Two primary EXEC modes are user mode and privileged mode
• Command modes have distinctive prompts
  
  

Cisco IOS Software Exec

There are two main EXEC modes for entering the Cisco switch commands:

User Mode

Limited examination of switch

Command prompt on the switch is switch

Privileged Mode

Detailed examination of switch

Enables configuration and debugging

Prerequisites for other configuration modes

Command prompt on the router is switches#

Cisco Telnet Commands

There are two primary methods for accessing a Cisco manageable switch to use command line interface.

Out of band Console connection

Via Ethernet through Telnet

Telnet is a utility used for remotely login to a device. To telnet a Cisco IOS switch from your computer, you have to type the following command on the CMD terminal of your computer:

Telnet ip address of the switch Just like:

Telnet 192.168.0.253

Cisco Catalyst 1900 Switch Commands

Followings are some basic commands of Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch commands:

Show running-config:
This command displays the memory status of the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch

Show interfaces:
This command displays the detailed information about all the interfaces of Cisco
Catalyst 1900 switch.

Show interfaces Ethernet 0/1:
This command displays the detailed information about a specific 10baseT Ethernet interface of the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch

Show interfaces Fast Ethernet 0/26:
This command displays the detailed information about a specific 100baseT Fast Ethernet interface of the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch

Show ip:
This command displays the ip configuration of the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch

Show Mac-address-table:
This command displays the Mac addresses of the devices that are currently connected to the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.

Show Mac-address-table security:
This command displays the address table size and the addressing security of each interface of the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.

Show VLAN:
This command displays the status of current VLANs enabled on the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.
Show VLAN-membership: This command displays the VLAN membership of all the ports on the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.

Show Spantree 1:
This command displays the complete information about the spanning tree protocol 1 that is by default enabled on the Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.

Copy nvram tftp: //host/dst_file:
This command is used to send the configuration to a TFTP server.

Copy tftp: //host/src_file nvram:
This command is used to download the configuration from a TFTP server.

Delete nvram:
This command is used to reset the system configuration to factory defaults.


Show Cisco Switch Commands

Here are some show commands of Cisco switches:

Show version:
This command displays the hardware and software status of the Cisco switch

Show flash:
This command displays the files and directories in the flash of the Cisco switch

Show interfaces:
This command displays the detailed information about all the interfaces of the Cisco switch

Show interfaces fast Ethernet 0/x:
This command displays the detailed information about the specific interface of the Cisco switch

Show interfaces VLAN 1:
This command displays the ip address configuration of VLAN 1

Show running-config:
This command displays the status of RAM

Show startup-config:
This command displays the status of NVRAM

Show-mac-address-table:
This command displays the MAC address of the devices that are directly connected with any port of the switch.

Show port-security: [interface] [address]:
This command displays the port security options on the interface

Show history:
This command displays the last ten commands that are executed in the switch configuration

Show line:
This command is used to view the brief information about all the lines of the Cisco switch

Show line console 0:
This command is used to view the detailed information about the specific line of the Cisco switch Erase startup-config: This command is used to erase the nvram of the Cisco switch

Cisco Switch Configuration Commands

Configure terminal:
This command is used to enter in the global configuration mode of the Cisco switch

Hostname:
This command is used to assign the hostname of the Cisco switch

Enable password:
This command is used to set the enable password of the Cisco switch

Enable secret:
This command is used to set the encrypted password of the Cisco switch that is used for entering in the privileged mode

Interface VLAN 1:
This is a global configuration command used to configure the VLAN interface of the Cisco switch

Interface fast Ethernet 0/x:
This command is used to configure the specific interface of the Cisco switch

IP address:
This command is used to configure the ip address of any interface of the Cisco switch

IP default-gateway:
This is an interface configuration command to set the default gateway

Speed:
This command is used to set the speed for the interface of the Cisco switch

Duplex:
This command is used to set the duplex setting for the interface of the Cisco switch

Line console 0:
This command is used to enter in the specific line configuration mode of the Cisco switch

Password:
This command is used to set the password of any line of the Cisco switch