On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Ravi Kumar Tenneti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >>But some devices also have a CLI which I doubt is very much used. > > This is not the case as the high end Switches from Cisco, Foundry and > others - all the Network administrators will be heavily using CLI and for > Cisco sometime back they used to charge money for enabling the CLI meaning > they used to ship by default with GUI and they knew very well that CLI is > preferred and they used to ask the customer to shell out extra money for > CLI.
In the CISCO compatible world that most gear seeks to be in, the CLI is extremely important to know. Notwithstanding GUI, the configuration files are all CLI scripts that are run on every reboot. If something backfires, you got to know CLI to know where and why the error occurs. In a high end box we built, CLI was king. We did build a GUI but it could never quite match the flexibility and power of the CLI. GUI works well for prepackages sets of scenarios where an option would produce a slew of CLI.... -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
