You can display additional information when you are not sure of the meaning of configuration statements and what permission bits are required to add and modify them.
To display additional information about the entire configuration, use the following CLI configuration mode command:
To display additional information about a specific hierarchy, use the following CLI configuration mode command:
The following sample output is for the first command. The output for a particular hierarchy appears similar to its section in this sample output.
user@host> edit
user@host# show | display detail
##
## version: Software version information
## require: system
##
version "3.4R1 [tlim]";
system {
##
## host-name: Host name for this router
## match: ^[[:alnum:]._-]+$
## require: system
##
host-name router-name;
##
## domain-name: Domain name for this router
## match: ^[[:alnum:]._-]+$
## require: system
##
domain-name isp.net;
##
## backup-router: Address of router to use while booting
##
backup-router 10.168.100.1;
root-authentication {
##
## encrypted-password: Crypted password string
##
encrypted-password "$1$BYJQE$/ocQof8pmcm7MSGK0"; # SECRET-DATA
}
##
## name-server: DNS name servers
## require: system
##
name-server {
##
## name-server: DNS name server address
##
208.197.1.0;
}
login {
##
## class: User name (login)
## match: ^[[:alnum:]_-]+$
##
class superuser {
##
## permissions: Set of permitted operation categories
##
permissions all;
}
...
##
## services: System services
## require: system
##
services {
## services: Service name
##
ftp;
##
## services: Service name
##
telnet;
##
}
syslog {
##
## file-name: File to record logging data
##
file messages {
##
## Facility type
## Level name
##
any notice;
##
## Facility type
## Level name
##
authorization info;
}
}
}
chassis {
alarm {
sonet {
##
## lol: Loss of light
## alias: loss-of-light
##
lol red;
}
}
}
}
interfaces {
##
## Interface name
##
at-2/1/1 {
atm-options {
##
## vpi: Virtual path index
## range: 0 .. 255
## maximum-vcs: Maximum number of virtual circuits on this VP
##
vpi 0 maximum-vcs 512;
}
##
## unit: Logical unit number
## range: 0 .. 16384
##
unit 0 {
##
## vci: ATM point-to-point virtual circuit identifier ([vpi.]vci)
## match: ^([[:digit:]]+.){0,1}[[:digit:]]+$
##
vci 0.128;
}
}
...
The sample output shows additional information that includes the help string explaining each configuration statement, and the permission bits required to add and modify the configuration statement.