The SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a concise and powerful way to configure SonicWall NSM without using the web-based management user interface.
This section describes the text formatting conventions used in NSM CLI.
Bold text indicates a command executed by interacting with the user interface.
Italic text indicates the first occurrence of a new term, as well as a book title, and also emphasized text. Italics are sometimes used to represent user-specified information in this guide.
Items within angle brackets (“< >”) are required information.
Items within square brackets (“[ ]”) are optional information.
Items separated by a “pipe” (“|”) are options. You can select any of them.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Up Arrow / Down Arrow - Displays the previously executed command.
Backspace / Ctrl + H - Removes a single character.
TAB - Completes a command without typing the full word.
Left Arrow / Right Arrow - Traverses the current line.
Here are the common CLI commands used to configure NSM On-Premises 3.2: