Basic Operation Guide 2013/06
Table Of Contents
- Switch Software
- Contents
- 1 Commands found in the Basic Operation Guide
- 2 Getting started
- 3 Using the Menu Interface
- 4 Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Overview
- Accessing the CLI
- Using the CLI
- Return message types with CLI commands
- CLI interactive commands
- CLI control and editing
- 5 Using the HP WebAgent
- 6 Switch memory and configuration
- Overview
- Configuration file management
- Using the CLI to implement configuration changes
- Creating a custom default configuration
- Using the menu and WebAgent to implement configuration changes configuration file
- Zeroization
- Using Primary and Secondary flash image options
- Multiple configuration files
- Display configuration of selected interface
- Automatic configuration update with DHCP Option 66
- 7 Interface access and system information
- 8 Configuring IP addressing
- Overview
- IP configuration
- Loopback interfaces
- IP Preserve: retaining VLAN-1 IP addressing across configuration file downloads
- Configuring a single source IP address
- 9 Software management
- Downloading switch documentation and software from the web
- Viewing or downloading the software manual set
- Downloading software updates for your switch
- Software signing and verification
- Saving configurations while using the CLI
- Important: Best Practices for software updates
- Updating the switch: overview
- Updating the switch: detailed steps
- Rolling back switch software
- Viewing or transferring alternate configuration files
- Downloading switch documentation and software from the web
- Index
3 Using the Menu Interface
Overview
This chapter describes the following features:
• Overview of the Menu Interface, 17
• Starting and ending a Menu session, 18
• The Main Menu, 20
• Screen structure and navigation, 20
• Rebooting the switch, 22
The menu interface operates through the switch console to provide you with a subset of switch
commands in an easy-to-use menu format enabling you to:
• Perform a "quick configuration" of basic parameters, such as the IP addressing needed to
provide management access through your network
• Configure these features:
Manager and Operator passwords◦
◦ System parameters
◦ IP addressing
◦ Time protocol
◦ Ports
◦ Trunk groups
◦ A network monitoring port
◦ SNMP community names
◦ IP authorized managers
◦ VLANs (Virtual LANs) and GVRP
• View status, counters, and Event Log information
• Update switch software
• Reboot the switch
For a detailed list of menu features, see the “Menu features list” (page 24).
Privilege levels and password security. HP strongly recommends that you configure a Manager
password to help prevent unauthorized access to your network. A Manager password grants full
read-write access to the switch. An Operator password, if configured, grants access to status and
counter, Event Log, and the Operator level in the CLI. After you configure passwords on the switch
and log off of the interface, access to the menu interface (and the CLI and web browser interface)
will require entry of either the Manager or Operator password. (If the switch has only a Manager
password, then someone without a password can still gain read-only access.)
NOTE: If the switch has neither a Manager nor an Operator password, anyone having access
to the console interface can operate the console with full manager privileges. Also, if you configure
only an Operator password, entering the Operator password enables full manager privileges.
For more information on passwords, refer to the Access Security Guide for your switch.
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