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

Table Of Contents

Chapter 5

Administration and Management

Switch Administration and Management

Step 4. Enter the username command with the name of the user, the privilege keyword, and the

privileges to assign this user. For example:

HP-IB(config)# username ib-admin privilege ib-rw ip-ethernet-ro fc-rw

In the example above, ib-admin is the name of the user account, privilege is a mandatory keyword, and

ib-rw, ip-ethernet-ro, and fc-rw are access privileges.

NOTE When you change a user’s privileges, all the old privileges are removed and replaced with the

new privilege(s). If the user had multiple privileges, include the other privileges on the

command line when you make the change. Privileges are order-dependent. Enter them in the

same order as shown in the table above.

Example The following example gives a user read-write access to InfiniBand and Ethernet configuration commands.

Password: xxxx

HP-IB> enable

HP-IB# configure

HP-IB(config)# username IB_admin privilege ib-rw ip-ethernet-rw fc-ro

HP-IB(config)# exit

HP-IB# show user IB_admin

============================================================================

User Information

============================================================================

username : IB_admin

password : $1$LZHfWO6k$6LSXKZ7adbkC6/WXXBTAF/

snmp-community : IB_admin

permission-level : ib-rw, ip-ethernet-rw, fc-ro

admin-status : enabled

num-logins : 0

num-unsuccessful-logins : 0

last-login :

last-unsuccessful-login :

HP-IB#

Setting the System Clock

Maintaining accurate time is important for statistics and auditing. The system chassis provides an on-board

system clock to save the time settings across reboots. Time is maintained in one of two ways:

• An on-board system clock

• External NTP servers

Time is set at the factory, and can be manually set. To ensure accurate synchronization, it is recommended to

use an external NTP server. This enables logs to be synchronized with other management systems.

Time or NTP servers may be configured in the CLI. In the CLI, time may be set manually using the clock

command and NTP servers may be specified using the ntp command. This section describes these methods.

Setting Time Through the CLI Note: If you have an NTP server configured, it is recommended that you

use the process described in: “Setting the NTP Servers to Maintain the System Clock” on page 97.

To set the system clock in the CLI:

Step 1. Login to the CLI as the super user.