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Chapter 11
System Management
SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Introduction
This chapter describes how the
Administrator
can perform a range of general
console server
system administration and
configuration tasks such as:
Applying
Soft
and
Hard
Resets to the gateway.
Re-‐flashing the Firmware.
Configuring the Date, Time and NTP.
Setting up Backup of the configuration files.
System administration and configuration tasks that are covered elsewhere include:
Resetting the System Password and entering a new System Name and Description (
Chapter 3.2
).
Setting the System IP Address (
Chapter 3.3).
Setting the permitted Services by which to access the gateway (
Chapter 3.4
).
Setting up OoB Dial-‐in (
Chapter 5
).
Configuring the Dashboard (
Chapter 12
).
11.1 System Administration and Reset
The
Administrator
can reboot or reset the gateway to default settings.
A
soft
reset is affected by:
Selecting
Reboot
in the
System: Administration
menu and clicking
Apply.
The
console server
reboots with all settings (
for example,
the assigned network IP address) preserved. This
soft
reset
disconnects all users and ends any established SSH sessions.
A
soft
reset will also occur when you switch OFF power from the
console server
, and then switch the power back ON. If
you cycle the power and the unit is writing to flash, you could corrupt or lose data, so rebooting the software is the safer
option.
A
hard
erase (
hard reset
) is performed by:
