Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Notices
- Contents
- Preface
- Features Overview
- Hardware Installation
- Software Installation and Setup
- Powering On and Booting the Software
- Starting the Command Line Interface
- Setting Basic System Information
- Setting Up SNMP Community Strings
- Setting Up Passwords
- Setting the DNS Domain Name and Address
- Setting SYSLOG Parameters
- Loading System Image Software
- Loading Boot PROM Software
- Upgrading the VFS
- Activating Configuration Changes and Saving the Configuration File
- Installing and Starting Cabletron CoreWatch
- Troubleshooting
- Technical Support
- Index

Chapter 3: Software Installation and Setup
26 SmartSwitch Router 2100 Getting Started Guide
Setting Basic System Information
Use the procedure in this section to set the following system information:
• System time and date
• System name
• System location
• Contact name (the person to contact regarding this SSR 2100)
Note:
Some of the commands in this procedure accept a string value. String values can
be up a maximum of 255 characters in length, including blank spaces. Surround
strings that contain blanks with quotation marks (example:
“string with internal
blanks
”).
To set the system information:
1. Ensure that you are in Enable mode by entering the enable command in the CLI.
2. Use the following commands to set the system time and date and then verify the
setting
Here is an example:
3. Ensure that you are in Configure mode by entering the configure command in the
CLI. The commands in Step 4 through Step 10 can be entered only from Configure
mode.
4. Use the following commands to set the system name, location, and contact
information:
set date year <number> month <month-name> day <day> hour <hour>
minute
<minute> second <second>
system show date
ssr# system set date year 1998 month january day 19 hour 11 minute 54
second 0
Time changed to: Mon Jan 19 11:54:00 1998
ssr# system show date
Current time: Mon Jan 19 11:54:04 1998
system set name
"<string>"
system set location "
<string>"
system set contact "
<string>"