Admin Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: New in this document
- Chapter 3: Basic administration
- Chapter 4: System startup fundamentals
- Chapter 5: Boot parameter configuration using ACLI
- Chapter 6: Run-time process management using ACLI
- Chapter 7: Chassis operations
- Chassis operations fundamentals
- Chassis operations configuration using ACLI
- Enabling jumbo frames
- Configuring port lock
- Configuring SONMP
- Viewing the topology message status
- Associating a port to a VRF instance
- Configuring an IP address for the management port
- Configuring Ethernet ports with Autonegotiation
- Enabling channelization
- Configuring serial management port dropping
- Controlling slot power
- Enabling or disabling the USB port
- Chassis operations configuration using EDM
- Editing system information
- Editing chassis information
- Configuring system flags
- Configuring channelization
- Configuring basic port parameters
- Viewing the boot configuration
- Configuring boot flags
- Enabling Jumbo frames
- Configuring the date and time
- Associating a port to a VRF instance
- Configuring CP Limit
- Configuring an IP address for the management port
- Editing the management port parameters
- Configuring the management port IPv6 interface parameters
- Configuring management port IPv6 addresses
- Auto reactivating the port of the SLPP shutdown
- Editing serial port parameters
- Enabling port lock
- Locking a port
- Viewing power information
- Viewing power status on VSP 8400
- Viewing fan information
- Viewing topology status information
- Viewing the topology message status
- Configuring a forced message control pattern
- Chapter 8: Hardware status using EDM
- Chapter 9: Domain Name Service
- Chapter 10: Licensing
- Chapter 11: Network Time Protocol
- Chapter 12: Secure Shell
- Secure Shell fundamentals
- Secure Shell configuration using ACLI
- Downloading the software
- Enabling the SSHv2 server
- Changing the SSH server authentication mode
- Setting SSH configuration parameters
- Verifying and displaying SSH configuration information
- Connecting to a remote host using the SSH client
- Generating user key files
- Managing an SSL certificate
- Disabling SFTP without disabling SSH
- Enabling SSH rekey
- Configuring SSH rekey data-limit
- Configuring SSH rekey time-interval
- Displaying SSH rekey information
- Downgrading or upgrading from releases that support different key sizes
- Secure Shell configuration using Enterprise Device Manager
- Chapter 13: System access
- System access fundamentals
- System access configuration using ACLI
- Enabling ACLI access levels
- Changing passwords
- Configuring an access policy
- Specifying a name for an access policy
- Allowing a network access to the switch
- Configuring access policies by MAC address
- System access security enhancements
- Displaying the boot config flags status
- Enabling enhanced secure mode
- Creating accounts for different access levels
- Deleting accounts in enhanced secure mode
- Configuring a password for a specific user
- Returning the system to the factory defaults
- Configuring the password complexity rule
- Configuring the password length rule
- Configuring the change interval rule
- Configuring the reuse rule
- Configuring the maximum number of sessions
- Configuring the maximum age rule
- Configuring the pre- and post-notification rule
- System access configuration using EDM
- Chapter 14: ACLI show command reference
- Access, logon names, and passwords
- Basic switch configuration
- Current switch configuration
- CLI settings
- Ftp-access sessions
- Hardware information
- NTP server statistics
- Power summary
- Power information for power supplies
- System information
- System status (detailed)
- Telnet-access sessions
- Users logged on
- Port egress COS queue statistics
- CPU queue statistics
- Chapter 15: Port numbering and MAC address assignment reference
- Chapter 16: Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs
- Glossary
Password maximum age rule
The system enforces automatic password renewal and password lockout after the expiration period
because long-term usage of the same password can cause the system to be vulnerable to hacking.
You can configure the password expiration period to a range of 1 to 365 days. The default password
expiration period is 90 days.
Password max-session
The password max-sessions value indicates the maximum number of times a particular type of role-
based user can log in to the switch through the SSH session at the same time. The max-sessions
value applies only for SSH sessions, and only with enhanced secure mode enabled.
After the maximum session number is reached that particular type of user cannot login. For
example, if the max-sessions for an auditor user is configured as 5, then the auditor user can log in
to only five SSH sessions at the same time. The default is 3.
Password pre-notification interval and post-notification interval rule
After enhanced secure mode is enabled, the switch enforces password expiry. To ensure a user
does not lose access, the switch offers pre- and post-notification messages explaining when the
password will expire.
The administrator can define pre- and post-notification intervals to between one to 99 days.
The system maintains the password with a time stamp for when the password expiration. When you
log in, the system checks the password time stamp and the notification timer values. If the
administrator configures the pre-notification to 30 days, when you log in, the system checks the time
stamp and notification timer values, and if the password expiry is due in 30 days, the system
displays the first notification.
The pre-notification intervals provide messages to warn users that their passwords will expire within
a particular timeframe:
• interval 1—By default, interval 1 is 30 days.
• interval 2—By default, interval 2 is 7 days.
• interval 3—By default, interval 3 is 1 day.
The post-notification intervals provide notification to users that their passwords have expired within a
particular timeframe:
• interval 1—By default, interval 1 is 1 day.
• interval 2—By default, interval 2 is 7 days.
• interval 3—By default, interval 3 is 30 days.
If you do not change the password before the expiry date, the system locks your account. Once
locked, only the administrator can unlock the account. The administrator creates a temporary
password, and then you can login with the temporary password.
System access
January 2017 Administering Avaya VSP 7200 Series and 8000 Series 186
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