Allied Telesis AT-9400 Switch User Manual


 
AT-S63 Management Software Menus User’s Guide
Section IX: Management Security 601
Modifying an Encryption Key
The Key Management menu has a selection for modifying the description
of an encryption key. This is the only item of a key that you can modify.
You cannot change a key’s ID, type, or length.
To change the description of a key, perform the following procedure:
1. From the Main Menu, type 7 to select Security and Services.
The Security and Services menu is shown in Figure 71 on page 220.
2. From the Security and Services menu, type 7 to select Keys/Certificate
Configuration.
The Keys/Certificate Configuration menu is shown in Figure 221 on
page 596.
3. From the Keys/Certificates Configuration menu, type 2 to select Key
Management.
The Key Management menu is shown in Figure 222 on page 597.
4. From the Key Management menu, type, type 3 to select Modify Key.
The following prompt is displayed:
Enter Key Id to modify -> [0 to 65535] -> 0
5. Enter the ID of the key whose description you want to modify.
The following prompt is displayed.
Enter new Description ->
6. Enter the new description for the key. The description can be up to 40
alphanumeric characters including spaces. To help identify the key,
you might make the description the name of the web server the key will
be used to protect (for example, Production switch web server).
The following prompt is displayed:
Press any key to continue ...
The key has been modified.
7. Press any key to return to the Key Management menu.
Returning to the Main Menu to save your changes is not necessary
with this procedure. This type of change is automatically saved by the
management software.