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General Guidelines
To work within the console menus and screens, follow these guidelines:
•To select an item on a screen or a menu, highlight it by using the arrow keys and then press ENTER. If you need to specify additional information for that
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In most cases, new values are saved when you select Return.
The More item means there is more information than what is displayed on that screen. Selecting More and pressing ENTER displays the next screen of information.
Port refers to the number of a specific port on an switch.
Index refers to the numerical order of a list.
To return to the main menu from any screen, press
To refresh the console screen, press
If you are administering switches in a stack, many of the console screens will prompt for a box number. Enter the number of the box you want to administer.
The “VLAN” term in connection with CRF is discussed on page 31. The terms “Virtual LAN” and “domain” are interchangeable.
The console automatically returns to the greeting screen after five minutes of inactivity. Five minutes is the default value. The time can be changed at the Console Configuration menu as explained later in this chapter.
To open the Console Configuration menu from the main menu, select Configuration → Console Configuration.
For protection against inadvertent or unauthorized access to configuration screens, you may establish a password that users must enter at the greeting screen. In release 4.0 (and later) two types of users can be defined:
Read-only users:
These users cannot modify any of the configuration parameters. They can read everything (except the SNMP communities).
Read-write users:
These users have full access to all configuration parameters.
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