Allied Telesis Rapier Switch - Manual (Page 17)

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Chapter 3
Operating the Switch
This chapter introduces general operation, management and support features,
including user authentication, loading and installing support files, and SNMP
MIBs. For more information see Chapter 1, Operation in the Rapier Switch
Software Reference.
User Privileges
The command processor supports three levels of privilege, USER, MANAGER,
and SECURITY OFFICER, distinguished by the prompt displayed by the
command processor when it is ready to receive commands. A USER level
prompt looks like:
>
while a MANAGER prompt looks like:
Manager >
and a SECURITY OFFICER prompt looks like:
SecOff >
See Chapter 1, Operation in the Rapier Switch Software Reference for more
information about creating new accounts with user, manager and security
officer privileges.
File Subsystem
FLASH memory is structured like a file subsystem. Files can be saved,
renamed, listed and deleted. Release files, online help files, configuration
scripts and other scripts are all stored as files in FLASH memory.
File names of up to 16 characters long, with extensions of 3 characters (DOS
16.3 format), are supported on the switch. However, files on the switch are
stored
in FLASH and NVS using the DOS 8.3 format of 8 characters long, with
extensions of 3 characters. For example, the file extralongfilenam.cfg may
be saved as extral~1.cfg in the FLASH File System. Therefore, files can be
accessed via two file names, either of which can be used for file management.
A translation table, named longname.lfn , converts file names between DOS
16.3 format and DOS 8.3 format. To reconcile file names the switch consults the