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5. Select the role you want to assign to the new user from the options provided in the

Associated Roles

panel. Select one or more of the following options:

6. Select the access modes to assign to the new user from the options provided in the

Access Modes

panel. Select one or more of the following options:

7. Refer to the

Status

field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays error

messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.

8. Click the

OK

button to create the new user.

9. Click

Cancel

to revert back to the last saved configuration without saving any of your changes.

7.6.1.2 Modifying an Existing Local User

To create a new local user:

1. Select

Management Access

>

Users

from the main menu tree.

2. Select a user from the Users list and click the

Edit

button.

3. The

Username

field is read-only field and displays the log name of the user.

4. Enter the new authentication password for the user in the

Password

field and reconfirm the same again

in the

Confirm Password

field.

Monitor

Select

Monitor

to assign regular user permissions without any administrative rights. The

Monitor option provides read-only permissions.

Help Desk Manager

Assign this role to someone who typically troubleshoots and debugs problems reported by the
customer. the Help Desk Manager typically runs troubleshooting utilities (like a sniffer),
executes service commands, views/retrieves logs and reboots the switch.

Network
Administrator

The

Network Administrator

provides configures all wired and wireless parameters like IP

config, VLANs, L2/L3 security, WLANs, radios, IDS and hotspot.

System Administrator Select

System Administrator

to allow the user to configure general settings like NTP, boot

parameters, licenses, perform image upgrade, auto install, manager redundancy/clustering
and control access.

Web User
Administrator

Assign

Web User Administrator

privileges to add users for Web authentication (hotspot).

Super User

Select

Super User

to assign complete administrative rights.

NOTE: There are some basic operations/CLI commands like exit, logout, help available to
all the user roles. All the roles except Monitor can perform Help Desk role operations.

NOTE: By default, the switch is https enabled with a self signed certificate. This is required
since the applet uses https for user authentication.

Console

This option provides the new user access to the switch using the console.

SSH

This option provides the new user access to the switch using SSH.

Telnet

This option provides the new user access to the switch using a Telnet session.

Applet

This option provides the new user access to the switch through the Web UI (applet).

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