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NPort 5400 Series User’s Manual Configuring NPort Administrator

Password Protection

The NPort 5400 can be password-protected to prevent unauthorized configuration changes. The six possible protection states are described below. Note that the term “Fixed’ is borrowed from the standard fixed IP address networking terminology.

When using Broadcast Search to obtain a list of NPort device servers on the network, each device server will show a status of either Lock, Unlock or Blank.

Lock

The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Broadcast Search” was used to locate it, and the password has not yet been entered from within the current Administrator session.

Unlock

The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Broadcast Search” was used to locate it, and the password has been entered from within the current Administrator session. Henceforth during this Administrator session, activating various utilities for this NPort 5400 will not require re-entering the server password.

Blank

The NPort 5400 is not password protected, and “Broadcast Search” was used to locate it.

Fixed

The NPort 5400 is not password protected, and “Search by IP address” was used to locate it.

Lock Fixed

The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Specify by IP address” was used to locate it, and the password has not yet been entered from within the current Administrator session.

Unlock Fixed

The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Specify by IP address” was used to locate it, and the password has been entered from within the current Administrator session. Henceforth during this Administrator session, activating various utilities for this NPort 5400 will not require re-entering the server password.

Unlock Password Protection

If the NPort 5400 is password protected, as indicated by a status of “Lock”, you will receive the following error when you attempt to modify the configuration. You will not be able to use the right click method to open the configuration page.

In this case, proceed as follows to “Unlock” the device server.

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