Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Switch
•SNMP. The switch can be monitored by an SNMP manager. See Section 25.3 on page 176.
•Cluster Management. Cluster Management allows you to manage multiple switches through one switch, called the cluster manager. See Chapter 28 on page 193.
1.3Good Habits for Managing the switch
Do the following things regularly to make the switch more secure and to manage the switch more effectively.
•Change the password. Use a password that’s not easy to guess and that consists of different types of characters, such as numbers and letters.
•Write down the password and put it in a safe place.
•Back up the configuration (and make sure you know how to restore it). Restoring an earlier working configuration may be useful if the device becomes unstable or even crashes. If you forget your password, you will have to reset the switch to its factory default settings. If you backed up an earlier configuration file, you would not have to totally re- configure the switch. You could simply restore your last configuration.
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