HP Procurve cli?

DevilWAH

How much different it the HP interface to Cisco?

If I am (more than) comfortably with the CISCO IOS, how long would it take to pick up HP?

Cheers

Aaron

ptilsen

It's not that different, and it some ways it is simpler and easier. That said, it's confusing because HP actually changed how it functions substantially between some models, and some Procurves are re-branded 3COM.

Still, I have no CCNA or CCENT, and minimal switching experience, and I've had not had significant problems configuring LACP, VLANs and VLAN trunking, and port security. That said, I once configured VLANs between an Adtran and two different Procurve models, and I'd be lying if I didn't say it was a little be frustrating to use three different interfaces all at once, especially having studied on Catalysts.

To directly answer your question: Not long. Maybe a few hours, maybe even a few minutes. Edit: Also, the PDF documentation, once you find it, is pretty decent. HP has been fairly intentional about documenting the interface well and keeping it as similar to iOS, CatOS, and Adtran as possible. The differences are subtle. It's sure nothing compared to going from VBScript to PowerShell to BASH back to Windows command line.