Logging on to a switch, Working with user accounts, Logging on to a switch working with user accounts – HP 2/8q Fibre Channel User Manual

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HP StorageWorks 2/8q Fibre Channel Switch Management User Guide

Logging on to a switch

To log on to a switch using a Telnet session, open a command line window on the workstation
and enter the Telnet command followed by the switch IP address:

# telnet ip_address

A Telnet window opens prompting you for a login. Enter an account name and password.

To log on to a switch through the serial port, configure the workstation port with the following
settings and enter an account name and password when prompted.

Working with user accounts

Switches come from the factory with the following user account already defined:

This user account provides full access to the switch and its configuration. After planning your
fabric management needs and creating your own user accounts, consider changing the
password for this account. See

Commands

” on page 116 for more information about

authority levels. See the

User command

” on page 171 for information about creating user

accounts.

Note:

A switch supports a combined maximum of 19 logins or sessions reserved as follows:

4 logins or sessions for internal applications such as management server and SNMP.

9 high priority Telnet sessions.

6 logins or sessions for Switch Manager inband and out-of-band logins, and Telnet logins.

Additional logins are refused.

Table 41: Workstation port settings

Parameter

Setting

Baud rate

9600 bits per second

Data bits

8

Parity

None

Stop bits

1

Table 42: Predefined user accounts

Account name

Password

Authority

admin

password

admin

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