Device Menu Screen
Accessing Local Management
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Menu Descriptions
Refer to
Table 3-1
for a functional description of each menu item.
Table 3-1
Device Menu Screen Menu Item Descriptions
Menu Item
Screen Function
DEVICE
CONFIGURATION
MENU
Provides access to the Local Management screens that are used to
configure the SmartSwitch device and also provides access to the Port
Configuration Menu, 802.1 Configuration Menu, and Layer 3
Extensions Menu screens.
The Port Configuration Menu screen provides access to the screens that
are used to set operating parameters specific to each port.
For more information about the Device Configuration Menu screen,
refer to
Chapter 4
.
DEVICE
STATISTICS
MENU
Provides access to screens used to obtain SmartSwitch device,
interface, and RMON statistics information. For details, refer to
Chapter 10
.
NETWORK
TOOLS
The Network Tools function resides on the switch and consists of that
commands that allow you to access and manage the SmartSwitch
device and also Telnet to other devices.
Chapter 11
explains how to use
the Network Tools utility.
SECURITY
Provides access to the Passwords and the Radius Configuration
screens.
The Passwords screen allows you to set a login password for the device
according to access policy (read-only, read-write, and super-user). A
different password can be set for each access policy.
To prevent clearing the passwords, hardware switch 8 on the board of
the device can be disabled using this screen. For an overview of the
security available on this switch, refer to
Section 3.4
.
The Radius Configuration screen allows you to configure the Radius
Client on the switch to restrict access to the Local Management screens
via Telnet or the web. You can also program this function using the
“radius” command described in
Chapter 11
.
For more information about the Passwords screen, refer to
Section 3.6
.
