About Terminal Settings and Sessions
This section includes information about terminal settings and sessions.
Terminal Session Settings
The Cisco NX-OS software features allow you to manage the following characteristics of terminals:
- Terminal type
- Name used by Telnet when communicating with remote hosts
- Length
- Number of lines of command output displayed before pausing
- Width
- Number of characters displayed before wrapping the line
- Inactive session timeout
- Number of minutes that a session remains inactive before the device terminates it
Console Port
The console port is an asynchronous serial port that allows you to connect to the device for initial configuration through a standard RS-232 port with an RJ-45 connector. Any device connected to this port must be capable of asynchronous transmission. You can configure the following parameters for the console port:
- Data bits
- Specifies the number of bits in an 8-bit byte that is used for data.
- Inactive session timeout
- Specifies the number of minutes a session can be inactive before it is terminated.
- Parity
- Specifies the odd or even parity for error detection.
- Speed
- Specifies the transmission speed for the connection.
- Stop bits
- Specifies the stop bits for an asynchronous line.
Configure your terminal emulator with 9600 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity.
Virtual Terminals
You can use virtual terminal lines to connect to your device. Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet create virtual terminal sessions. You can configure an inactive session timeout and a maximum sessions limit for virtual terminals.