Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series Hardware Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 61)

Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series and NetIron CER 2000 Series Hardware Installation Guide 51
53-1003029-02
Chapter
4
Device Management Applications Familiarization
Management application overview
This chapter describes the different applications you can use to manage the devices. The Brocade
devices support the same management applications as other devices.
As with other devices, you can manage a device using any of the following applications:
• Command Line Interface (CLI) – a text-based interface accessible directly from a PC or terminal
attached to the device’s serial (Console) port or 10BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet (management)
port, or from a Telnet connection to the PC or terminal.
• Brocade Network Advisor – An optional SNMP-based standalone GUI application. For more
information see the Unified IP MIB reference manual.
The following section describes how to log on to these applications.
CLI Functionality
Once an IP address is assigned to the Brocade device’s management port, you can access the CLI
through a PC or terminal attached to the device’s serial (Console) port or 10BaseT/100BaseTX
Ethernet (management) port, or from a Telnet or SSH connection to the PC or terminal.
You can initiate a local Telnet, SSH or SNMP connection by specifying the management port’s IP
address.
The commands in the CLI are organized into the following levels:
• User EXEC – Lets you display information and perform basic tasks such as pings and
traceroutes.
• Privileged EXEC – Lets you use the same commands as those at the User EXEC level plus
configuration commands that do not require saving the changes to the system-config file.
• CONFIG – Lets you make configuration changes to the device. To save the changes across
software reloads and system resets, you need to save them to the system-config file. The
CONFIG level contains sub-levels for individual ports, for VLANs, for routing protocols, and other
configuration areas.
NOTE
By default, any user who can open a direct or Telnet connection to a Brocade device can access all
these CLI levels. To secure access, you can configure Enable passwords or local user accounts, or
you can configure the device to use a RADIUS or TACACS/TACACS+ server for authentication.