3Com 3 manual Default Users, User Default Access Level Name Password

50CHAPTER 3: SETTING UP FOR MANAGEMENT

You can use the 3Com Network Supervisor application that is provided on the CD-ROM that accompanies your Switch to provide SNMP management for your Switch. If you use 3Com Network Supervisor it automatically loads the correct MIBs and necessary files onto your workstation.

Pre-requisites■ Documentation supplied with the SNMP network management application software.

To manage your Switch using an SNMP network management application, you need to specify SNMP community strings for the users defined on the Switch. You can do this using the command line interface system management snmp community command — refer to the command line interface section of the “SuperStack 3 Switch Management Interface Reference Guide” for more information.

Default Users and If you intend to manage the Switch using the web interface or the

Passwordscommand line interface, or to change the default passwords, you need to log in with a valid user name and password. The Switch has three default user names, and each user name has a different password and level of access. These default users are listed in Table 9.

CAUTION: To protect your Switch from unauthorized access, you must change all three default passwords as soon as possible, even if you do not intend to actively manage your Switch

Table 9	Default Users
User	Default	Access Level
Name	Password
monitor	monitor	monitor — the user can view all manageable parameters,
		except special/security features, but cannot change any
		manageable parameters.
manager	manager	manager — the user can access and change the
		operational parameters but not special/security features
admin	(no	security — the user can access and change all manageable
	password)	parameters

Use the admin default user name (no password) to login and carry out initial Switch setup.