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5. Select the role you want to assign to the new user from the options provided in the
Associated Roles
panel. Select one or more of the following options:
6. Select the access modes to assign to the new user from the options provided in the
Access Modes
panel. Select one or more of the following options:
7. Refer to the
Status
field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays error
messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.
8. Click the
OK
button to create the new user.
9. Click
Cancel
to revert back to the last saved configuration without saving any of your changes.
7.6.1.2 Modifying an Existing Local User
To create a new local user:
1. Select
Management Access
>
Users
from the main menu tree.
2. Select a user from the Users list and click the
Edit
button.
3. The
Username
field is read-only field and displays the log name of the user.
4. Enter the new authentication password for the user in the
Password
field and reconfirm the same again
in the
Confirm Password
field.
Monitor
Select
Monitor
to assign regular user permissions without any administrative rights. The
Monitor option provides read-only permissions.
Help Desk Manager
Assign this role to someone who typically troubleshoots and debugs problems reported by the
customer. the Help Desk Manager typically runs troubleshooting utilities (like a sniffer),
executes service commands, views/retrieves logs and reboots the switch.
Network
Administrator
The
Network Administrator
provides configures all wired and wireless parameters like IP
config, VLANs, L2/L3 security, WLANs, radios, IDS and hotspot.
System Administrator Select
System Administrator
to allow the user to configure general settings like NTP, boot
parameters, licenses, perform image upgrade, auto install, manager redundancy/clustering
and control access.
Web User
Administrator
Assign
Web User Administrator
privileges to add users for Web authentication (hotspot).
Super User
Select
Super User
to assign complete administrative rights.
NOTE: There are some basic operations/CLI commands like exit, logout, help available to
all the user roles. All the roles except Monitor can perform Help Desk role operations.
NOTE: By default, the switch is https enabled with a self signed certificate. This is required
since the applet uses https for user authentication.
Console
This option provides the new user access to the switch using the console.
SSH
This option provides the new user access to the switch using SSH.
Telnet
This option provides the new user access to the switch using a Telnet session.
Applet
This option provides the new user access to the switch through the Web UI (applet).