Chapter 6 Basic Setting

Figure 20 General Setup

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 10 General Setup

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

System Name

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

 

32 printable characters; spaces are not allowed.

 

 

Location

Enter the geographic location (up to 30 characters) of your switch.

 

 

Contact Person's

Enter the name (up to 30 characters) of the person in charge of this switch.

Name

 

 

 

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 local user accounts configured

 

in the Access Control Logins screen.

 

Select Local then RADIUS to have the switch check the local user 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 and password.

 

 

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