Using the cycli Utility : cycli Utility Overview

cycli Utility Overview
An administrator can configure the OnBoard appliance using the cycli utility. Only one administrator can be logged into the OnBoard appliance at a time. While in the cycli utility, an administrator can escape to the shell and when finished can return to the cycli utility.
Administrators often prefer using the cycli utility over the Web Manager because they can run frequently-performed cycli configuration commands from shell scripts or from text files that can be executed in batch mode. For example, on an OnBoard appliance with 40 private Ethernet ports, configuring all the SPs one by one could be tedious and prone to error, so scripting the configuration of multiple SPs is a good use of the cycli utility. Example scripts are provided in /libexec/example_scripts.
The cycli utility provides a set of commands (described under cycli Commands) that act on parameters nested in a format called the CLI parameter tree. Some parameters require arguments when the parameters are entered with some commands.
NOTE: This section describes the cycli commands and how to navigate the cycli parameter tree, but it does not describe all the parameters and values. For examples of how to use the cycli command for performing tasks such as adding users and groups, configuring devices and authentication, see examples in /libexec/example_scripts.