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OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide March 2005 page 8-1
8 Managing Switch Security
Switch security is provided on the switch for all available management interfaces (console, Telnet, HTTP,
FTP, Secure Shell, and SNMP). The switch may be set up to allow or deny access through any of these
interfaces. (Note that users attempting to access the switch must have a valid username and password.)
In This Chapter
This chapter describes how to set up switch management interfaces through the Command Line Interface
(CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for more details about the syntax of
commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.
An overview of switch security is given in this chapter. In addition, configuration procedures described in
this chapter include:
• “Configuring Authenticated Switch Access” on page 8-6
• “Setting Up Management Interfaces for ASA” on page 8-9
• “Configuring Accounting for ASA” on page 8-12
A user login procedure requires that users are authenticated for switch access via an external authentica-
tion server or the local user database. For information about setting up user accounts locally on the switch,
see Chapter 7, “Managing Switch User Accounts.” For information about setting up external servers that
are configured with user information, see the “Managing Authentication Servers” chapter in the
OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide.
This chapter describes how to enable/disable access for management interfaces. For information about
basic login on the switch, see Chapter 1, “Logging Into the Switch.”