Administrator Guide

Switch Management
This chapter describes the switch management tasks supported on the switch.
Topics:
• Configuring Privilege Levels
• Configuring Logging
• Track Login Activity
• Limit Concurrent Login Sessions
• Enabling Secured CLI Mode
• Log Messages in the Internal Buffer
• Disabling System Logging
• Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server
• Display the Logging Buffer and the Logging Configuration
• Changing System Logging Settings
• Configuring a UNIX Logging Facility Level
• Synchronizing Log Messages
• Enabling Timestamp on Syslog Messages
• File Transfer Services
• Terminal Lines
• Setting Time Out of EXEC Privilege Mode
• Using Telnet to Access Another Network Device
• Lock CONFIGURATION Mode
• LPC Bus Quality Degradation
• Recovering from a Forgotten Password
• Ignoring the Startup Configuration and Booting from the Factory-Default Configuration
• Recovering from a Failed Start
• Restoring Factory-Default Settings
• Using Hashes to Verify Software Images Before Installation
• Verifying System Images on C9010 Components
• Viewing the Reason for Last System Reboot
Configuring Privilege Levels
Privilege levels restrict access to commands based on user or terminal line.
There are 16 privilege levels, of which three are pre-defined. The default privilege level is 1.
Level
Description
Level 0 Access to the system begins at EXEC mode, and EXEC mode commands are limited to enable,
disable, and exit.
Level 1 Access to the system begins at EXEC mode, and all commands are available.
Level 15 Access to the system begins at EXEC Privilege mode, and all commands are available.
For information about how access and authorization is controlled based on a user’s role, see Role-Based Access Control.
Creating a Custom Privilege Level
Custom privilege levels start with the default EXEC mode command set. You can then customize privilege levels 2-14 by:
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