After an administrative user logs into the CLI, the user is at the top-level of the operational mode. At this level, the user can configure the CLI parameters. These are the available CLI session parameters:

ParameterDescription
historySet CLI history display size. (Limit of 8192 lines)
idle-timeoutSet the CLI session idle timeout. (Limit of 8192 seconds)
paginateSet pagination mode for CLI command output (true means to paginate; false means do not paginate).

Examples:

The following example sets the idle-timeout for a CLI session parameter to 300 seconds.

> set idle-timeout 300
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The following example displays all the settings for all CLI session parameters:

> show cli
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