Chapter 5 Connecting the Management Interfaces and Performing Initial System Configuration

Initial System Configuration

 

 

 

Parameter

Definition

 

 

 

 

time zone name and

Standard time zone abbreviation and minutes offset from UTC.

 

 

 

offset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

local time and date

Current local time and date. Use the format:

 

 

 

 

00:00:00 1 January 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SNTP Configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

broadcast client status

Set the status of the SNTP broadcast client.

 

 

 

 

If enabled, the SCE will synchronize its local time with updates received

 

 

 

 

from SNTP broadcast servers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

unicast query interval

Interval in seconds between unicast requests for update (64 – 1024)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

unicast server IP address

IP address of the SNTP unicast server.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DNS Configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DNS lookup status

Enable or disable IP DNS-based hostname translation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

default domain name

Default domain name to be used for completing unqualified host names

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP address

IP address of domain name server. ( maximum of 3 servers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RDR Formatter Destination Configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP address

IP address of the RDR-formatter destination

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TCP port number

TCP port number of the RDR-formatter destination

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access Control Lists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access Control List

How many ACLs will be necessary? What IP addresses will be

 

 

 

number

permitted/denied access for each management interface? You may want

 

 

 

 

ACLs for the following :

 

 

 

 

• Any IP access

 

 

 

 

• Telnet access

 

 

 

 

• SNMP GET access

 

 

 

 

• SNMP SET access

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

list entries (maximum 20

IP address, and whether permitted or denied access.

 

 

 

per list)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP access ACL

ID number of the ACL controlling IP access.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

telnet ACL

ID number of the ACL controlling telnet access.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SNMP Configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SNMP agent status

Enable or disable SNMP management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GET community names

Community strings to allow GET access and associated ACLs (maximum

 

 

 

 

20).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SET community names

Community strings to allow SET access and associated ACLs (maximum

 

 

 

 

20).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

trap managers

Trap manager IP address, community string, and SNMP version.

 

 

 

 

(maximum 20)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems OL-7821-04, SCE 1000 2xGBE manual Parameter Definition

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