AB291A Fabric Clustering System Support Guide (12-port Switch), April 2004

Chapter 5
Administration and Management
Switch Administration and Management
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• you have multiple administrative user-accounts and you want to switch to another administrative area
To change your user identity:
Step 1. Enter the user-execute or privileged-execute mode.
Step 2. Enter the login command with the name of a system user.
HP-IB# login admin
Step 3. Enter the user password.
After you enter the password, you are logged in as the specified user in the user-execute mode.
Password: xxxxx
HP-IB>
Notifying Users
User notification commands send text messages to the terminal screens of all CLI users or to individual
users. These are convenient utilities for notifying everyone of an impending reboot or to notify single users
about special issues that apply only to them.
Broadcasting Messages to Users Message broadcasting is an important feature to forewarn all CLI users
that some major event is about to take place, such as bringing down a network for administration. A
broadcast message is sent to every active CLI session on the system chassis.
Enclose multi-word messages within double-quotes. Single-word messages do not require double-quotes. Only
the unrestricted user may broadcast messages.
HP-IB# broadcast “message”
Syntax
The message identifies the sender, followed by the message text.
For example, if you send this:
HP-IB# broadcast "Switch going down in 10 minutes."
everyone, including the user who sent the message, receives this:
HP-IB#
Broadcast message from super
Switch going down in 10 minutes.
Sending Messages to Individual Users The write command is used to send a message to a single user.
Check that the user is logged in before attempting to write to their terminal. Use the show user user_name
command to verify the user is logged in.
HP-IB> show user anonymous
======================================================================
User Information
======================================================================
username : anonymous
access-level : readwrite
admin-status : enabled
status : active
num-logins : 1
num-unsuccessful-logins : 6