User Guide

10 Installing Your Switch
a. Enter
admin
at the login prompt and press
<Enter>
.
The following prompt displays:
password:
b. Enter
switch
at this prompt and press
<Enter>
.
When you have successfully logged in, the
screen will display similar to the following.
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Alcatel Omni Switch/Router
Copyright (c), 1994 - 2002 Alcatel Internetworking, Inc. All rights reserved.
Omni Switch/Router is a trademark of Alcatel Internetworking, Incorporated,
registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Press ENTER to start
The Omni Switch/Router is factory-configured to boot
up in
CLI
(Command Line Interface) mode. The
CLI
allows you to enter single-line commands through the
local console. (For more information on CLI, see your
Text-Based Configuration Reference Manual.)
To start the Command Line Interface, press
<Enter>.
The following message and CLI prompt (->) will be
displayed, to indicate that you are in CLI mode:
Entering Command Line Interface
->
♦ Configuration Modes ♦
You can also configure your switch
through the User Interface (
UI). To
enter the User Interface, type ui at the
CLI prompt (->) and press <Enter>.
The UI prompt (/=>) will be
displayed, indicating that you are in
UI mode. From here, you can type ?
and press <Enter> to view the Main
Menu. (For more information on using
the UI, refer to your Omni Switch/
Router User Manual.)
To return to
CLI mode from UI mode,
type either cli or exit at the UI prompt
(/=>) and press <Enter>.
10. Set Up a Password
Before you configure the connections for your switch,
you should set up a password for the admin login
account. The admin login account provides full access
to all switch management functions.
The factory default password for the
admin account is
switch. Follow these steps to change the password for
the admin account:
a. Type
password admin <old_password >
<new_password>
at the CLI prompt and press
<Enter>. For example, to change the factory
default password (switch) to a new password (for
example,
lahaina), enter the following:
-> password admin switch lahaina