Sending Command Output to Other Users

If you are troubleshooting your router and, for example, talking with a customer service representative on the phone, you can use the request message command to send your representative the command output you are currently viewing on your terminal.

The following example sends the output from the show interfaces command you enter on your terminal to the terminal of the user root@ttyp1:

root@ui6% who

root     ttyp0 Nov  3 12:42     (172.17.28.75)

root     ttyp1 Nov 30 10:32     (172.17.28.75)

root@ui6% cli

root@ui6> show interfaces | request message user root@ttyp1

The user root@ttyp1 sees the following output appear on his terminal screen:

Message from root@ui6 on /dev/ttyp0 at 10:32 PST...

Physical interface: dsc, Enabled, Physical link is Up

   Interface index: 5, SNMP ifIndex: 5

   Type: Software-Pseudo, MTU: Unlimited ...