Cabletron Systems STS16-20R Switch User Manual


 
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SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R Token Ring Switches Installation and User Guide Switch Configuration
General Guidelines
To work within the console menus and screens, follow these guidelines:
To select an item on a screen or a menu, highlight it by using the arrow keys
and then press
ENTER
. If you need to specify additional information for that
itemfor example, selecting
Ye s
or
No
or supplying a
value
a prompt
appears on the screen.
In most cases, new values are saved when you select
Return
.
The
More
item means there is more information than what is displayed on that
screen. Selecting
More
and pressing
ENTER
displays the next screen of
information.
Port
refers to the number of a specific port on an switch.
Index
refers to the numerical order of a list.
To return to the main menu from any screen, press
CTRL-P
. Note that any
changes made to the screen you were in will not be saved when you do this. To
return to the greeting screen, press
CTRL-B
.
To refresh the console screen, press
CTRL-L
.
If you are administering switches in a stack, many of the console screens will
prompt for a box number. Enter the number of the box you want to administer.
The VLAN term in connection with CRF is discussed on page 31.
The terms Virtual LAN and domain are interchangeable.
The console automatically returns to the greeting screen after five minutes of
inactivity. Five minutes is the default value. The time can be changed at the
Console Configuration
menu as explained later in this chapter.
To open the
Console Configuration
menu from the main menu, select
Configuration
Console Configuration
.
For protection against inadvertent or unauthorized access to configuration
screens, you may establish a password that users must enter at the greeting
screen. In release 4.0 (and later) two types of users can be defined:
Read-only
users:
These users cannot modify any of the configuration parameters.
They can read everything (except the SNMP communities).
Read-write
users:
These users have full access to all configuration parameters.