system

Prompts you in a line-by-line fashion to change system configuration settings. Table 52 describes the system configuration fields. For each parameter, enter a new value or press Enter to accept the current value shown in brackets.

NOTE: Changing the IP address will terminate all Ethernet management sessions.

Table 52 System configuration settings

Entry

Description

 

 

Eth0NetworkDiscovery

Ethernet boot method: 1 - Static, 2 - Bootp, 3 - DHCP, 4 - RARP. The default

 

is 1 - Static.

 

 

Eth0NetworkAddress

Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) address. The default is 10.0.0.1.

 

 

Eth0NetworkMask

Ethernet subnet mask address. The default is 255.0.0.0.

 

 

Eth0GatewayAddress

Ethernet IP address gateway. The default is 10.0.0.254.

 

 

AdminTimeout

Amount of time in minutes the switch waits before terminating an idle

 

Admin session. Zero (0) disables the time out threshold. The default is 30,

 

the maximum is 1440.

 

 

InactivityTimeout

Amount of time in minutes the switch waits before terminating an idle

 

Telnet CLI session. Zero (0) disables the time out threshold. The default is 0,

 

the maximum is 1440.

 

 

LocalLogEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) the saving of log information on the

 

switch. The default is True.

 

 

RemoteLogEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) the recording of the switch event log on a

 

remote host that supports the syslog protocol. The default is False.

 

 

RemoteLogHostAddress

The IP address of the host that will receive the switch event log information

 

if remote logging is enabled. The default is 10.0.0.254.

 

 

NTPClientEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) the Network Time Protocol (NTP) client

 

on the switch. This client enables the switch to synchronize its time with an

 

NTP server. This feature supports NTP version 4 and is compatible with

 

version 3. An Ethernet connection to the server is required and you must

 

first set an initial time and date on the switch. The synchronized time

 

becomes effective immediately. The default is False.

 

 

NTPServerAddress

The IP address of the NTP server from which the NTP client acquires the

 

time and date. The default is 10.0.0.254.

 

 

EmbeddedGUIEnabled

Enables (True) or disables (False) the McDATA Web Server. Changing this

 

parameter to False while the applet is running will terminate the applet.

 

The default is True.

 

 

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