ES-2048 User’s Guide

Figure 28 General Setup

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 9 General Setup

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

System Name

Choose a descriptive name for identification purposes. This name consists of up to

 

64 printable characters; spaces are allowed.

Location

Enter the geographic location of your switch. You can use up to 32 printable ASCII

 

characters; spaces are allowed.

Contact Person's

Enter the name of the person in charge of this switch. You can use up to 32

Name

printable ASCII characters; spaces are allowed.

Login

Use this drop-down list box to select which database the switch should use (first) to

Precedence

authenticate an administrator (user for switch management).

 

Configure the local user accounts in the Access Control Logins screen. The

 

RADIUS is an external server. Before you specify the priority, make sure you have

 

set up the corresponding database correctly first.

 

Select Local Only to have the switch just check the administrator accounts

 

configured in the Access Control Logins screen.

 

Select Local then RADIUS to have the switch check the administrator accounts

 

configured in the Access Control Logins screen. If the user name is not found, the

 

switch then checks the user database on the specified RADIUS server. You need to

 

configure Port Authentication Radius first.

 

Select RADIUS Only to have the switch just check the user database on the

 

specified RADIUS server for a login username, password and the access privilege.

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