System Administration

Creating a location description

The Set Location command specifies text that appears in the HTML control screen’s Location field. The text is also appended to a Welcome to banner that appears when a user successfully logs in serially or through a Telnet session.

If you do not issue this command, or if you issue this command without specifying any text, the control screen ’s Location field will be blank and no Welcome to banner will be displayed.

To create a location description:

At the Sentry: prompt, type set location, followed by a descriptive name of up to 24 alphanumeric and other typeable characters (ASCII 32 to 126 decimal - spaces are allowed). Press Enter.

Omitting any characters after typing ‘set location’ deletes any previously specified text.

Examples

The following command specifies Florida HQ as the descriptive location for the control screen and the login banner:

Sentry: set location Florida HQ<Enter>

The following command deletes any previously specified location description:

Sentry: set location<Enter>

In this case, the control screen’s Location field will be blank, and no welcome banner will be displayed after a successful login.

Displaying system configuration information

The Show System command displays all system configuration information.

•Firmware version

•NIC module serial number and MAC address

•Hardware revision code and Flash size

•Uptime since last system restart

•System location description

See Chapter 4: Advanced Operations on page 45 for more information on SNMP.

To display system configuration information:

At the Sentry: prompt, type show system and press Enter.

Example

System

Information

 

 

 

 

F/W

Version:

Sentry Version

5.2b

NIC

S/N:

1600001

 

 

MAC

Address:

00-0a-9c-10-00-01

 

H/W

Rev Code:

0

MB

 

 

Flash Size:

1

14

minutes 1 second

Uptime:

0

days 6 hours

Location: Florida HQ

Creating a descriptive tower name

The Set Tower Name command assigns a descriptive name to a tower. This descriptive name is displayed when the Show Traps command is issued. See Displaying trap configuration information on page 38 for more information on the Show Traps command.

To create a tower name:

At the Sentry: prompt, type set tower name, followed by the absolute tower name, then the descriptive name of up to 24 alphanumeric and other typeable characters (ASCII 33 to 126 decimal - spaces are not allowed). Press Enter.

Example

The following command adds the descriptive name Florida_HQ_1 to tower .a:

Sentry: set tower name .a Florida_HQ_1<Enter>

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