System information

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Using the Menu Interface
Overview
Using the Menu Interface
Overview
This chapter describes the following features:
■ Overview of the Menu Interface (page 4-1)
■ Starting and ending a Menu session (page 2-3)
■ The Main Menu (page 2-7)
■ Screen structure and navigation (page 2-9)
■ Rebooting the switch (page 2-12)
The menu interface operates through the switch console to provide you with
a subset of switch commands in an easy-to-use menu format enabling you to:
■ Perform a "quick configuration" of basic parameters, such as the IP
addressing needed to provide management access through your network
■ Configure these features:
■ View status, counters, and Event Log information
■ Download new software system
■ Reboot the switch
For a detailed list of menu features, see the "Menu Features List" on page 2-14.
Privilege Levels and Password Security. HP strongly recommends that
you configure a Manager password to help prevent unauthorized access to
your network. A Manager password grants full read-write access to the switch.
An Operator password, if configured, grants access to status and counter,
Event Log, and the Operator level in the CLI. After you configure passwords
on the switch and log off of the interface, access to the menu interface (and
the CLI and web browser interface) will require entry of either the Manager
or Operator password. (If the switch has only a Manager password, then
someone without a password can still gain read-only access.) For more
information on passwords, see "Using Password Security" on .
• Manager and Operator pass-
words
• System parameters
• IP addressing
• Ports
• One trunk group
• A network monitoring port
• Stack Management
• Spanning Tree operation
• SNMP community names
• IP authorized managers
• VLANs (Virtual LANs)