Terminal Screen Format in Cisco ASA

Terminal Screen Format in Cisco ASA

By default, all output from an ASA is displayed for a terminal session screen that is 80

characters wide by 24 lines long. To change the terminal screen width, you can use the following

configuration command:

ciscoasa(config)# terminal width characters

Here, characters is a value from 40 to 511. You can also specify 0, meaning the full 511-

character width.

To change the screen length, or the number of lines displayed when paging through a large

amount of output, you can use the following configuration command:

ciscoasa(config)# pager [lines] number

Here, number can be any positive value starting at 1. The lines keyword is optional, where

the number of lines given is the same either with or without it.

You can also disable screen paging completely by using pager 0 or no pager. This action

might be useful if you are capturing a large configuration or logging message output with

a terminal emulator. With paging disabled, all of the output could scroll by and be captured

into the emulator’s capture buffer. Otherwise, you would have to use the Spacebar

to page through the output and then later remove all the <--- More ---> prompts that were

captured too.