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Accessing Local Management
This chapter provides information about the following:
• Navigating through the Local Management screen hierarchy for 802.1Q Switching
(Section 3.1).
• Accessing the Password screen to enter a Local Management session (Section 3.2).
• Accessing the Device Menu screen and its menu items to gain access to the Local Management
screens including the security screens (Section 3.3).
• Accessing the Security Menu screen to control access to the switch’s host (Section 3.5).
• Accessing the Passwords (Section 3.6) and Radius Configuration (Section 3.7) screens. These
screens allow you to configure additional security by limiting access to Local Management
according to local access policy and remotely using the RADIUS Client feature.
• Accessing the Name Services Configuration screen (Section 3.8). This screen details additional
security components to permit password authentication via a Radius Server.
3.1 NAVIGATING LOCAL MANAGEMENT SCREENS
The switch Local Management application consists of a series of menu screens. Navigate through
Local Management by selecting items from the menu screens.
The hierarchy of the Local Management screens is shown in Figure 3-1.
NOTE: At the beginning of each chapter, a section entitled “Screen Navigation Path”
shows the path to the first screen described in the chapter.