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SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R Token Ring Switches Installation and User Guide

Switch Configuration

General Guidelines

To work within the console menus and screens, follow these guidelines:

To select an item on a screen or a menu, highlight it by using the arrow keys
and then press

ENTER

. If you need to specify additional information for that

item—for example, selecting Yes or No or supplying a value—a prompt
appears on the screen.

In most cases, new values are saved when you select Return.

The More item means there is more information than what is displayed on that
screen. Selecting More and pressing

ENTER

displays the next screen of

information.

Port

refers to the number of a specific port on an switch.

Index

refers to the numerical order of a list.

To return to the main menu from any screen, press

CTRL-P

. Note that any

changes made to the screen you were in will not be saved when you do this. To
return to the greeting screen, press

CTRL-B

.

To refresh the console screen, press

CTRL-L

.

If you are administering switches in a stack, many of the console screens will
prompt for a box number. Enter the number of the box you want to administer.

The “VLAN” term in connection with CRF is discussed on page 31.

The terms “Virtual LAN” and “domain” are interchangeable.

The console automatically returns to the greeting screen after five minutes of
inactivity. Five minutes is the default value. The time can be changed at the
Console Configuration

menu as explained later in this chapter.

To open the Console Configuration menu from the main menu, select
Configuration

Console Configuration

.

For protection against inadvertent or unauthorized access to configuration
screens, you may establish a password that users must enter at the greeting
screen. In release 4.0 (and later) two types of users can be defined:

Read-only

users:

These users cannot modify any of the configuration parameters.
They can read everything (except the SNMP communities).

Read-write

users:

These users have full access to all configuration parameters.