Chapter 4: Operation of Web-based Management
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4. Operation of Web-based Management
This chapter instructs you how to configure and manage the LPB4008A or LPB4024A through the web user interface it supports. Through
any one port, you can access and monitor the switch status, including MIBs status, port activity, Spanning tree status, port aggregation
status, multicast traffic, VLAN and priority status, even illegal access record and so on.
The managed switch’s default values are listed in the table below:
IP Address:
192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask:
255.255.255.0
Default Gateway:
192.168.1.254
Username:
admin
Password:
admin
After you finish configuring the managed switch in the CLI via the switch’s serial interface, you can browse through the switch. For instance,
type
http://192.168.1.1
in the address row in a browser, and the screen shown in Figure 3-1 will appear and ask you to input your
username and password to login and access authentication. The default username and password are both “admin.” The first time you use
the serial interface, enter the default username and password, then click the
<Login>
button. You are now logged in.
If your forgot the manager’s password, click on the “Forgot Password” option in Web user interface (see Figure 4-1) or input “Ctrl+Z” in the
CLI’s login screen (See Figures 4-1–4-2). The system will display the user’s serial number. Write down this serial number and contact Black
Box Technical Support at 724-746-5500 for a temporary password. Use this new password as ID and Password to login to the system
temporarily with manager authority. The user can only login to the system one time using the temporary password, so modify your password
immediately after you login to the system successfully.
In this login menu, you have to input the complete username and password respectively; the switch will not give you a shortcut to username
automatically. This looks inconvenient, but is safer.
The switch supports a simple user management function allowing only one administrator to configure the system at one time. If there are
two or more users using administrator’s identity, the switch will allow the only one who logs in first to configure the system. The rest of the
users, even with administrator’s identity, can only monitor the system. Users who have no administrator’s identity can only monitor the
system. A maximum of three users can login simultaneously to the switch.
To optimize the display effect, we recommend that you use Microsoft IE 6.0 above, Netscape V7.1 above or FireFox V1.00 above with 1024
x 768 resolution. The switch supports a neutral web browser interface.
In Figure 4-2, for example, the left section is the entire function tree with web user.