Switch Management
5.Select the role to assign to the user from the options provided in the Associated Roles field. Select one or more of the following options:
Monitor | If necessary, modify user permissions without any administrative rights. The Monitor option |
| provides |
Help Desk Manager | Optionally assign this role to someone who typically troubleshoots and debugs problems |
| reported by the customer. the Help Desk Manager typically runs troubleshooting utilities (like |
| a sniffer), executes service commands, views/retrieves logs and reboots the switch. |
Network | The Network Administrator provides configures all wired and wireless parameters like IP |
Administrator | config, VLANs, L2/L3 security, WLANs, radios, IDS and hotspot. |
System Administrator | Select System Administrator (if necessary) to allow the user to configure general settings |
| like NTP, boot parameters, licenses, perform image upgrade, auto install, manager |
| redundancy/clustering and control access. |
Web User | Assign Web User Administrator privileges (if necessary) to add users for Web |
Administrator | authentication (hotspot). |
Super User | Select Super User (if necessary) to assign complete administrative rights. |
NOTE: By default, the switch is https enabled with a self signed certificate. This is required since the applet uses https for user authentication.
NOTE: There are some basic operations/CLI commands like exit, logout and help available to all the user roles. All roles except Monitor can perform Help Desk role operations.
6.Select the access modes you want to assign to the user from the options provided in the Access Modes panel. Select one or more of the following options:
Console | This option provides the new user access to the switch using the console (applet). |
SSH | This option provides the new user access to the switch using SSH. |
Telnet | This option provides the new user access to the switch using Telnet |
Applet | This option provides the new user access to the switch the Web UI (applet). |
7.Refer to the Status field for an indication of any problems that may have arisen.
The Status is the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays error messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.
8.Click on OK to complete the modification of the users privileges.
9.Click Cancel to revert back to the last saved configuration without saving any of your changes.
