Configuration Submodes and Contexts
Configuration mode itself contains a multitude of subcommand modes. Context-setting commands move you from one configuration subcommand mode, or context, to another. These context-setting commands tell the switch the topic about which you will enter the next few configuration commands.
Note
Context setting is not a Cisco term; it is just a term used here to help make sense of configuration mode. As mentioned earlier in the chapter, NX-OS enables you to enter commands that might be at a less-specific command mode with the ?. For instance, you can be in interface command mode, enter (config-if)# spanning-tree vlan ?, and it will list the help for this global configuration command.
The interface command is ...
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