3Com Understanding Switch Default Passwords and Management Processes

50CHAPTER 3: SETTING UP FOR MANAGEMENT

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
Name	Password	Access Level
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

Changing Default Passwords

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

You can change the default passwords using either:

■The gettingStarted command on the CLI, or

■The security device user modify command on the CLI, or