Olicom 8605, 8600 manual General Guidelines

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General Guidelines

To work within the console menus and screens, follow these guidelines:

•To select an item on a screen or a menu, highlight it by using the arrow keys and then press ENTER. If you need to specify additional information for that item—for example, selecting Yes or No or supplying a value—a prompt appears on the screen.

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In most cases, new values are saved when you select Return.

The More item means there is more information than what is displayed on that screen. Selecting More and pressing ENTER displays the next screen of information.

Port refers to the number of a specific port on a switch.

Index refers to the numerical order of a list.

To return to the main menu from any screen, press CTRL-P. Note that any changes made to the screen you were in will not be saved when you do this. To return to the greeting screen, press CTRL-B.

To refresh the console screen, press CTRL-L.

If you are administering switches in a stack, many of the console screens will prompt for a box number. Enter the number of the box you want to administer.

The “VLAN” term in connection with CRF is discussed on page 26.

The terms “Virtual LAN” and “domain” are interchangeable.

The console automatically returns to the greeting screen after five minutes of inactivity. Five minutes is the default value. The time can be changed at the Console Configuration menu as explained later in this chapter. To open the Console Configuration menu, select Configuration... in the main menu and then select Console Configuration... in the Configuration menu.

For protection against inadvertent or unauthorized access to configuration screens, you may establish a password that users must enter at the greeting screen. If no password is configured, just press ENTER and the main menu is presented. To establish a password, see the section “Password Menu,” later in this chapter. To open the Password menu, select Configuration... in the main menu and then select Password... in the Configuration menu. For more explanation on the greeting screen, see Chapter 5, “Connecting a Network Management Console”.

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