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3-2

Using the Menu Interface

Overview

This chapter describes the following features:

■ Overview of the Menu Interface (page 3-2)

■ Starting and ending a Menu session (page 3-3)

■ The Main Menu (page 3-7)

■ Screen structure and navigation (page 3-9)

■ Rebooting the switch (page 3-12)

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:

■ 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” on page 3-14.

Privilege Levels and Password Security. ProCurve strongly recom-

mends 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 pass-

word, then someone without a password can still gain read-only access.)

• 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

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