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Basic Huawei Router Configuration

Table of Contents
• Huawei Router Configuration
o Huawei Help Command
o Huawei Configuration Mode
o Useful Shortcuts
o Changing Router Name
o Setting Clock on Hauwei Routers
o Huawei Router CLI Messages
o Router User Privilege Levels
o Router Telnet Configuration
o Router Console Configuration
o Huawei CLI Adjustments
o Huawei Router Interface Configuration

Huawei Router Configuration


In this Huawei Basic Router Configuration lesson, we will talk about the Basic Huawei
Router Configuration Commands. These commands are basic but very improtant
commands for your Huawei hands on experience and for Huawei HCIA Certification. You
can also check the other Huawei Configuration Lessons.

For our configuration example, we will use a single router.


Huawei Help Command

On Huawei routers and switches, you can use question mark (?) to help about configuration
commands. This help can be both to complete a command or for the available all commands
under that hierarchy.

If you use “?” alone, then available all commands will be showed at that level. Here, we list
all the commands beginning with “display dhcp”.

<Huawei-Router> display dhcp ?

client DHCP client

option82 DHCP option82

relay DHCP relay


server DHCP server

snooping Snooping

static Static bind item

statistics Statistics

If you use “?”, with a letter, the commands that begins with that letter will be showed. Below,
after “display dhcp” command, we list the commands beginning with “s”.

<Huawei-Router> display dhcp s?

server snooping

static statistics

Huawei Configuration Mode


On every router, there are different view modes. On Huawei routers there are four different
viw modes. These are:

▪ User View
▪ System View
▪ Interface View
▪ Protocol View

User View is the mode that you will enter after login to the router. With this mode, you can
check the system configurations.
After that to configure a Huawei router, you should enter System View Mode. To enter this
configuration mode, we use “system-view” command. This is the equivalent of Cisco’s
“configure terminal” command.

<Huawei-Router> system-view

Enter system view, return user view with Ctrl+Z.

[Huawei-Router]
The other two modes are Interface view and Protocol view. In these modes, router interfaces
and routing protocol configurations are done.

Useful Shortcuts
There are various shortcuts on Huawei CLI. These shortcuts is useful during router
configuration. Some of the important shortcuts are given below:

CTRL – A : To go to the beginning of the line.


CTRL – C : Stops current function
CTRL – Z : Back to user view
TAB : Completes incomplete commands

Changing Router Name


On Huawei Routers, to change router name, we use “sysname” command.

[Huawei]sysname Huawei-Training

[Huawei-Training]

Setting Clock on Hauwei Routers


On all Routers, there is a clock and timezone settings. We can adjust this with various clock
commands on Huawei Routers.

To set the timezoze, we will use “clock timezone” command. Here, with “add” keyword, we
determine UTC+ timezone and with “mines”, we determine UTC- timezone. Here, we did
this configuration for UTC+3.

<Huawei-Router> clock timezone 1 add 3:00:00


After setting time zone, we can set the current time and date with “clock datetime”
command.

<Huawei-Router> clock datetime 15:45:10 2019-12-04

In some countries, daylight savingm time is used. So, summer and winter times change. To
adjust this on Huawei routers, we us “clock daylight-saving-time” command.

Lastly, you can check the set time and clock with “display clock” command.

<Huawei-Router> display clock

2019-12-04 15:45:14+3:00

Wednesday

Time Zone(1) : UTC+3:00

Huawei Router CLI Messages


There are two CLI Message options on Huawei routers. These CLI messages are :

▪ Header Login Message


▪ Header Shell Message

Header Login message is the message that you will see after the router boots. It is configured
with “header login information” command.

[Huawei-Router] header login information “Welcome!”

Header Shell message is the message that you will see after login to the router. It is
configured with “header shell information” command.

[Huawei-Router] header shell information “Be Careful!”


Welcome!

Login Authentication

Password:

Be Careful!

Router User Privilege Levels


On Routers, there are different user privilege levels. Some of these levels can only view
authorization, some of them has configuration authorization and others has different types of
authorizations. You can find the levels of Huawei routers below:

▪ User Level 0 : Command Level is 0. Visit Level


▪ User Level 1 : Command Level is 0 and 1. Monitor Level
▪ User Level 2 : Command Level is 0, 1 and 2. Configuration
▪ User Level 3-15 : Command Level is 0, 1, 2 and 3. Management

We can set user levels with “command-privilege level” command like below. Here, we have
set user level to 10.
[Huawei-Router] command-privilege level 10 view user save

Router Telnet Configuration


To configure telnet sessions setting on Hauwei routers, firstly we should enter the telnet
configuration level. By default 5 telnet sessions can be configured from 0 to 4. Here, we can
set also the user privilege level and user password. Fort his configuration, we will only give
monitoring permission to the thelnet users. And this permission is Level 1.Our password will
be “abc123”.

[Huawei-Router] line vty 0 4

[Huawei-Router-ui-vty0-4] user privilege level 1

[Huawei-Router-ui-vty0-4] authentication-mode password

[Huawei-Router-ui-vty0-4] set authentication password cipher abc123

Router Console Configuration


For console configuration, we will do the similar configurations with Telnet configurations.
Here, by default there is one Console session configuration. We will set our privilege level as
level 15 for console connection. And our password will be “abc123”.

[Huawei-Router] line console 0

[Huawei-Router-ui-console0] user privilege level 15

[Huawei-Router-ui-console0] authentication-mode password

[Huawei-Router-ui-console0] set authentication password cipher abc123

Huawei CLI Adjustments


On Huawei routers there are also some CLI setting. By setting these values, CLI screen
length, Session Timeout and Command History size are configured.
To set CLI screen size, we use “screen-length” command. We can set the displayed lines
after the command excution. Below, we set this value for 5 lines.

[Huawei-Router] screen-length 5

To set session timeout value, we use “idle-timeout” command. Below we set this for 1 hour.

[Huawei-Router] idle- timeout 1 60

For command history size, we use “history-command max-size” command. Below, we set to
store last 30 commands.

[Huawei-Router] history-command max-size 30

Huawei Router Interface Configuration


On Huawei routers, to configıre interfaces, firstly we should go to that interface level. Below,
we will configure interface Gigabit Ethernet 1/1/1 with ip address 192.168.0.1 and subnet
mask 255.255.255.0. After the ip configuration, we will open the interface.

[Huawei-Router] interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0

[Huawei-Router-GigabitEthernet0/0/0] ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0

[Huawei-Router-GigabitEthernet0/0/0] undo shutdown

Here, subnet mask can be also written as “24”.

[Huawei-Router-GigabitEthernet0/0/0] ip address 192.168.0.1 24

In this Basic Huawei Router Configuration lesson we have learned basic commands
of Huawei CLI.

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