Brocade Virtual ADX Administration Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) User Manual

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Additional system management functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Activating or deactivating daylight savings time . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Setting the time zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
DST change notice for networks using US time zones . . . . . . .55
Assigning a port name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Specifying the maximum number of unknown unicast packets . . .56

Protection against malformed IP packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Chapter 2

Secure Access Management

Securing access methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Restricting remote access to management functions . . . . . . . . . . .58

Restricting remote access to the device to specific IP
addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
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Restricting remote access to the device to specific VLAN IDs .60
Disabling specific access methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Setting passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Setting a Telnet password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Setting passwords for management privilege levels . . . . . . . . .63
Recovering from a lost password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Displaying the SNMP community string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Disabling password encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Specifying a minimum password length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Setting up local user accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Configuring a local user account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Displaying user account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Configuring TACACS or TACACS+ security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

How TACACS+ differs from TACACS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
TACACS or TACACS+ authentication, authorization
and accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
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TACACS or TACACS+ configuration considerations . . . . . . . . . .73
Identifying the TACACS or TACACS+ servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specifying different servers for individual AAA functions . . . . . 74
Setting optional TACACS or TACACS+ parameters . . . . . . . . . . .75
Configuring authentication-method lists for TACACS
or TACACS+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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Configuring TACACS+ authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Configuring TACACS+ accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Configuring an interface as the source for all TACACS
or TACACS+ packets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
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Displaying TACACS or TACACS+ statistics and configuration
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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