User guide

SUMMIT SWITCH INSTALLATION AND USER GUIDE 3-1

Accessing The Switch

This chapter provides the following required information to begin managing the

Summit:

¥ ConÞguring the Switch for management

¥ Switch management methods

¥ ConÞguring SNMP

¥ ConÞguring Switch ports

In order for conﬁguration changes to be retained through a Switch power cycle

or reboot, you must issue a SAVE command after you have made the change.

For more information on the SAVE command, refer to Chapter 11.

CONFIGURING MANAGEMENT ACCESS

The Summit supports the following two level levels of management:

¥ User

¥ Administrator

A user-level account has viewing access to all manageable parameters, with the

exception of the following:

¥ User account database

¥ SNMP community strings

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