Using the Menu Interface
Overview
Overview
This chapter describes the following features:
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Overview of the Menu Interface (page 3-2)
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Starting and ending a Menu session (page 3-3)
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The Main Menu (page 3-7)
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Screen structure and navigation (page 3-9)
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Rebooting the switch (page 3-12)
The menu interface operates through the switch console to provide you with
a subset of switch commands in an easy-to-use menu format enabling you to:
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Perform a “quick configuration” of basic parameters, such as the IP
addressing needed to provide management access through your network
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Configure these features:
• Manager
and
Operator
• A network monitoring port
passwords
• SNMP community names
• System parameters
• IP authorized managers
• IP addressing
• VLANs (Virtual LANs) and GVRP
• Time protocol
• Ports
• Trunk groups
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View status, counters, and Event Log information
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Update switch software
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Reboot the switch
For a detailed list of menu features, see the “Menu Features List” on page 3-14.
Privilege Levels and Password Security.
ProCurve strongly recom
mends that you configure a Manager password to help prevent unauthorized
access to your network. A Manager password grants full read-write access to
the switch. An Operator password, if configured, grants access to status and
counter, Event Log, and the Operator level in the CLI. After you configure
passwords on the switch and log off of the interface, access to the menu
interface (and the CLI and web browser interface) will require entry of either
the Manager or Operator password. (If the switch has only a Manager pass
word, then someone without a password can still gain read-only access.)
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