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Selecting a Management Interface
Advantages of Using the Menu In terface
Selecting a Management
Interface
Advantages of Using the Menu Interface
Figure 1-1. Example of the Console Interface Display
■Provides quick, easy management access to a menu-driven subset of
switch configuration and performance features:
The menu interface also provides access for:
■Offers out-of-band access (through the RS-232 connection) to the
switch, so network bottlenecks, crashes, lack of configured or co rrect IP
address, and network downtime do not slow or prevent access
■Enables Telnet (in-band) access to the menu functionality.
■Allows faster navigation, avoiding delays that occur with slower
display of graphical objects over a web browser interface.
■Provides more security; configuration information and passwords are
not seen on the network.
•IP addressing
•VLANs and GVRP
•Port Security
•Port and Static Trunk Group
•Stack Management
•Spanning Tree
•System information
•Passwords
•SNMP communities
•Time protocols
•Setup screen
•Event Log display
•Switch and port
status displays
•Switch and port statistic and counter
displays
•Reboots
•Software downloads