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Modem Port Access You can access the management interfaces from your PC or Macintosh
using an external modem attached to the modem serial port. The system
transmits characters that you have entered as output on the modem port.
The system echoes characters that it receives as input on the modem port
to the current Administration Console session. The console appears to be
directly connected to the external modem.
For more information about modem configuration options, see the
chapters in Part I of this guide.
Access Levels The Management Module CLI and the Administration Console CLI
support three access levels so that you can provide different levels of
access for a range of users, as described in Table 4.
You configure access levels and passwords on the Management Module
because that is the first point of entry. These conditions apply to both the
Management Module CLI and the Administration Console CLI of
switching modules. For example, if a user logs in to the Management
Module with
Write
privileges, then the user connects to any module’s
Administration Console at the same level.
Only one user at a time can log in with Administer privileges.
For additional information about user login functions, see the chapters in
Part I of this guide.
Table 4 Access Levels
Access
Level
For Users Who Need to Allows Users to
Administer Perform system setup and
management tasks (usually a
single network administrator) Perform system-level administration
(such as setting passwords, loading
new software, and so on)
Write Perform active network
management Configure network parameters
(such as setting bridge aging time)
Read Only view system parameters Access only
display
menu items
(display, summary, detail)