- [Instructor] Now I going to show you
how to configure the switch.
I'm going to start with a global configuration commands.
These are used to configure
the various settings on the switch.
The global commands apply to the whole switch
as opposed to a particular line or a port.
I'm going to go ahead and click on the switch.
I'm going to hit enter.
I'm going to type enable and I'm going to type config
from the terminal.
And then I'm going to do a question mark.
Let me go ahead and bring up the full screen
and you can see these are all
of my global configuration commands.
One of these commands is the host name command.
I'm going to hit the space bar to take me down
to the bottom of the command line.
It's a best practice to change the name of the switch
from its default name, so that you can easily recognize
which switch you are working on.
When you configure a new device name,
that name will appear at the start
of the command line prompt.
This is very, very helpful,
again, to differentiate the devices
as you are configuring multiple devices within a typology.
We use the host name command
to change the name of the switch.
I'm going to demonstrate that now.
Host name W_switch.
Then I simply hit enter on the keyboard.
That changes the name of the switch to west_switch
and you can see the new name is there
to the left of the prompt in the command line.