Installation guide

Switch Management
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4. Enter the new authentication password for the user in the Password field and reconfirm within the
Confirm Password field.
5. Select the user role from the options provided in the Associated Roles field. Select one or more of
the following options:
6. Select the access modes you want to assign to the user from the options provided in the Access
Modes panel. Select one or more of the following options:
7. Refer to the Status field for an indication of any problems that may have arisen.
The Status is the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays error messages
if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.
8. Click on OK to complete the modification of the users privileges.
9. Click Cancel to revert back to the last saved configuration without saving any of your changes.
Monitor If necessary, modify user permissions without any administrative
rights. The Monitor option provides read-only permissions.
Help Desk Manager Optionally assign this role to someone who typically troubleshoots
and debugs problems reported by the customer. the Help Desk
Manager typically runs troubleshooting utilities (like a sniffer),
executes service commands, views/retrieves logs and reboots the
switch.
Network
Administrator
The Network Administrator provides configures all wired and
wireless parameters like IP config, VLANs, L2/L3 security, WLANs,
radios, IDS and hotspot.
System Administrator Select System Administrator (if necessary) to allow the user to
configure general settings like NTP, boot parameters, licenses,
perform image upgrade, auto install, manager redundancy/
clustering and control access.
Web User
Administrator
Assign Web User Administrator privileges (if necessary) to add
users for Web authentication (hotspot).
Super User Select Super User (if necessary) to assign complete
administrative rights.
NOTE By default, the switch is HTTPS enabled with a self signed certificate. This is
required since the applet uses HTTPS for user authentication.
NOTE There are some basic operations/CLI commands like exit, logout and help
available to all user roles. All roles except Monitor can perform Help Desk role
operations.
Console Provides the new user access to the switch using the console
(applet).
SSH Provides the new user access to the switch using SSH.
Telnet Provides the new user access to the switch using Telnet.
Applet Provides the new user access to the switch using the Web UI
(applet).