Nortel Networks 8100 Setting System Security, Change SNMP community strings using the command

Using the Passport 8100 Modules

Setting System Security

System security parameters allow you to define login names and passwords for access to the switch management functions and to specify the access methods, such as through a Telnet session or through a Web browser.

To set system security:

1.Change CLI users and passwords using the following commands:

•config cli password ro <username>[<password>]—changes the

Read-Only login and/or password.

•config cli password l2 <username>[<password>]—changes the

Layer 2 Read-Write login and/or password.

•config cli password rw <username>[<password>]—changes the

Read-Write login and/or password.

•config cli password rwa <username>[<password>]—changes the

Read-Write-All login and/or password.

where:

username is the login name.

password is the password associated with the login name.

2.Change SNMP community strings using the command:

config sys set snmp community <rorwl2rwa> <commstr>

where:

<rorwl2rwa> is the choice of community—rois Read-Only, rw is Read-Write, l2 is Layer 2 Read-Write, and rwa is Read-Write-All.

<commstr> is the input community string {string}.

3.Enable or disable Web access using the commands:

•config web-server disable to turn off Web access

•config web-server enable to turn on Web access

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