Sonic OS Basics
Basic Show Commands
show boot
show environment (VM will not have sensors)
show version
show platform summary
show reboot-cause
show reboot-cause history
show reboot-cause history all
show uptime
show users
show platform ssdhealth [--vendor]
User Mgmt
To change password for a local user use the following. It will prompt you to type the new password twice.
sudo passwd 'USER'
Logging
Setting Clock
show clock
show clock timezones
Configure clock manually
sudo config clock date yyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
Configure clock timezone
sudo config clock timezone 'US/Eastern'
Interfaces/Transceivers
In a VM transceivers will not show up unless the devices are passed through directly
show interfaces transceiver (eeprom [-d|--dom] | info | lpmode | presence | error-status [-hw|--fetch-from-hardware] | pm | status) [<interface_name>]