Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual
Password policies......................................................................................... 140
Password strength policy.................................................................. 141
Password history policy.....................................................................142
Password expiration policy................................................................142
Account lockout policy.......................................................................143
The boot PROM password............................................................................144
Setting the boot PROM password for a switch with a recovery
string............................................................................................145
Setting the boot PROM password for a Backbone with a recovery
string............................................................................................145
Setting the boot PROM password for a switch without a recovery
string............................................................................................146
Setting the boot PROM password for a Backbone without a
recovery string............................................................................. 147
Remote authentication.................................................................................. 148
Remote authentication configuration.................................................148
Setting the switch authentication mode.............................................151
Fabric OS user accounts...................................................................151
Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server............................................152
Setting up a RADIUS server............................................................. 155
LDAP configuration and Microsoft Active Directory.......................... 160
LDAP configuration and OpenLDAP................................................. 162
TACACS+ service............................................................................. 166
Remote authentication configuration on the switch...........................169
Configuring local authentication as backup.......................................171
Configuring Protocols............................................................................................................173
Security protocols..........................................................................................173
Secure Copy................................................................................................. 175
Setting up SCP for configuration uploads and downloads................ 175
Secure Shell protocol.................................................................................... 175
SSH public key authentication.......................................................... 176
Secure Sockets Layer protocol .................................................................... 178
Browser and Java support................................................................ 178
SSL configuration overview...............................................................179
The browser ..................................................................................... 182
Root certificates for the Java plugin.................................................. 183
Simple Network Management Protocol.........................................................184
SNMP Manager.................................................................................184
SNMP Agent..................................................................................... 184
Management Information Base (MIB)............................................... 184
Basic SNMP operation...................................................................... 185
Understanding MIBs..........................................................................185
Access to MIB variables....................................................................186
SNMP support ..................................................................................187
Traps................................................................................................. 187
Loading Brocade MIBs......................................................................190
Access Gateway and Brocade MIBs.................................................193
Firmware upgrades and enabled traps............................................. 194
Support for Administrative Domains..................................................194
Support for Role-Based Access Control........................................... 194
Support for IPv6 addressing..............................................................195
Support for Virtual Fabrics................................................................ 195
Customized traps.............................................................................. 196
Configuring SNMP using CLI............................................................ 196
Telnet protocol.............................................................................................. 204
Blocking Telnet..................................................................................204
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