Specifications

7-20 WS5100 Series Switch System Reference Guide
5. Select the role you want to assign to the new user from the options provided in the Associated Roles
panel. Select one or more of the following options:
6. Select the access modes to assign to the new 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 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 the OK button to create the new user.
9. Click Cancel to revert back to the last saved configuration without saving any of your changes.
7.6.1.2 Modifying an Existing Local User
To create a new local user:
1. Select Management Access > Users from the main menu tree.
2. Select a user from the Users list and click the Edit button.
3. The Username field is read-only field and displays the log name of the user.
4. Enter the new authentication password for the user in the Password field and reconfirm the same again
in the Confirm Password field.
Monitor Select Monitor to assign regular user permissions without any administrative rights. The
Monitor option provides read-only permissions.
Help Desk Manager 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 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 to add users for Web authentication (hotspot).
Super User Select Super User to assign complete administrative rights.
NOTE: There are some basic operations/CLI commands like exit, logout, help available to
all the user roles. All the roles except Monitor can perform Help Desk role operations.
NOTE: By default, the switch is https enabled with a self signed certificate. This is required
since the applet uses https for user authentication.
Console This option provides the new user access to the switch using the console.
SSH This option provides the new user access to the switch using SSH.
Telnet This option provides the new user access to the switch using a Telnet session.
Applet This option provides the new user access to the switch through the Web UI (applet).