Good Habits For Managing The Nwa1000 Series; Starting And Stopping The Nwa1000 Series - ZyXEL Communications NWA1000 Series User Manual

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
This protocol can be used for firmware upgrades and configuration backup and restore.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
The NWA1000 Series can be monitored by an SNMP manager. See the SNMP chapter in this User's
Guide.

4.3 Good Habits for Managing the NWA1000 Series

Do the following things regularly to make the NWA1000 Series more secure and to manage it more
effectively.
• Change the password often. Use a password that's not easy to guess and that consists of different
types of characters, such as numbers and letters.
• Write down the password and put it in a safe place.
• Back up the configuration (and make sure you know how to restore it). Restoring an earlier working
configuration may be useful if the device becomes unstable or even crashes. If you forget your
password, you will have to reset the NWA1000 Series to its factory default settings. If you backed up
an earlier configuration file, you won't have to totally re-configure the NWA1000 Series; you can
simply restore your last configuration.

4.4 Starting and Stopping the NWA1000 Series

Here are some of the ways to start and stop the NWA1000 Series.
Always use Maintenance > Shutdown or the shutdown command
before you turn off the NWA1000 Series or remove the power. Not doing
so can cause the firmware to become corrupt.
Table 10 Starting and Stopping the NWA1000 Series
METHOD
Turning on the power
Rebooting the
NWA1000 Series
Using the RESET button
Chapter 4 Standalone Mode
DESCRIPTION
A cold start occurs when you turn on the power to the NWA1000 Series. The NWA1000
Series powers up, checks the hardware, and starts the system processes.
A warm start (without powering down and powering up again) occurs when you use the
Reboot button in the Reboot screen or when you use the reboot command. The
NWA1000 Series writes all cached data to the local storage, stops the system processes,
and then does a warm start.
If you press the RESET button on the back of the NWA1000 Series, the NWA1000 Series sets
the configuration to its default values and then reboots. See
more information.
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