By default, the CLI command prompt indicates the device being accessed, the active CSM, and the current CLI context. For example, the prompt A:NOK-1>config> router# indicates that the active CSM is CSM A, the user is on the device with hostname NOK-1, and the current context is configure router. In the prompt, the separator used between contexts is the ‟>” symbol.
At the end of the prompt, there is either a pound sign (#) or a dollar sign ($). A ‟#” at the end of the prompt indicates that the context is an existing context. A ‟$” at the end of the prompt indicates that the context has been newly created. Contexts are newly created for logical entities when the user first navigates into the context.
Because there can be a large number of sublevels in the CLI, the system command reduced-prompt no of nodes in prompt allows the user to control the number of levels displayed in the prompt.
All special characters (#, $, and so on) must be enclosed within double quotes; otherwise, the character is seen as a comment character and all characters on the command line following the ‟#” are ignored. For example:
*A:NOK-1>config>router>mpls# authentication-key "router#1"
This example shows a security configuration over a network link. Because the string ‟router#1” is enclosed within double quotes, it is recognized as a password for the link.
When changes are made to the configuration file, a ‟*” appears in the prompt string (*A:NOK-1), indicating that the changes have not been saved. When an admin save command is executed, the ‟*” disappears. This behavior is controlled by the saved-ind-prompt command in the environment context.