User`s guide

Pipeline System Administration
Activating administrative privileges
Pipeline User’s Guide Preliminary January 30, 1998 8-3
Activating administrative privileges
This section assumes that you have taken the recommended steps to secure the
Pipeline box, as described in Chapter 7, “Setting Up Pipeline Security.”
After you have taken the recommended steps, you cannot perform any system
administration operations without first supplying the required password. To
specify that password:
1
Press Ctrl-D to display the DO menu.
DO
…
>0=ESC
P=Password
E=Termsrv
SNMP
management
The Pipeline supports SNMP on a TCP/IP network. An
SNMP management station that uses the Ascend Enterprise
MIB can query the Pipeline, set some parameters, sound
alarms when certain conditions appear in the Pipeline, and so
forth. An SNMP manager must be running on a host on the
local IP network, and the Pipeline must be able to find that
host, either via static route or RIP.
In addition, SNMP has its own password security, which you
should set up to protect the Pipeline from being reconfigured
from an SNMP station.
Remote
management
via Telnet
The Pipeline can be remotely configured and managed by
establishing a Telnet session from any Telnet workstation and
viewing the configuration menus in a Telnet VT100 window.
You can use this feature to manage the Pipeline from a local
or remote computer. You can also use it to manage remote
Ascend units, such as the Pipeline. From a Telnet session you
can perform all of the configuration, diagnostic, management,
and other functions that could be performed from a computer
connected to the Pipeline Terminal port. See “Using the
terminal server interface” on page 8-17.