Opening a CLI Session

In certain instances, you need to communicate directly with an element to make changes using the command line interface (CLI) instead of through the VRC client or console. For example, you might want to create an access list or voice port for a gateway.

Use this procedure to open a Telnet session from the CLI to communicate with a specific element.

Procedure

You must be in the Design View to open a CLI session for an element.

  1. Expand the dial plan tree to view all components.

  2. Locate the element you want to open a CLI session for.

  3. Right-click the selected element.

  4. Choose Open CLI Console from the menu. After several minutes, a CLI console window opens and you are prompted for the password.  

The telnet application registered with your browser presents a standard telnet session interface to allow you to perform direct administration on the selected network element.

Choose Discard to exit without saving your changes.

The CLI console window closes.