Save Your Configuration; Switch Lockout; Reset The Switch; Restore Button - ZyXEL Communications XMG1915 Series User Manual

4.6 Save Your Configuration

When you are done modifying the settings in a screen, click Apply to save your changes back to the
run-time memory. Settings in the run-time memory are lost when the Switch's power is turned off.
Click the Save link in the upper right of the Web Configurator to save your configuration to non-volatile
memory. Non-volatile memory refers to the Switch's storage that remains even if the Switch's power is
turned off.
Note: Use the Save link when you are done with a configuration session.

4.7 Switch Lockout

You could block yourself (and all others) from managing the Switch if you do one of the following:
Delete the management VLAN (default is VLAN 1).
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Delete all port-based VLANs with the CPU port as a member. The "CPU port" is the management port of
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the Switch.
Filter all traffic to the CPU port.
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Disable all ports.
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Misconfigure the text configuration file.
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Forget the password and/or IP address.
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Prevent all services from accessing the Switch.
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Change a service port number but forget it.
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You forgot to log out of the Switch from a computer before logging in again on another computer.
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Note: Be careful not to lock yourself and others out of the Switch.

4.8 Reset the Switch

If you lock yourself (and others) from the Switch or forget the administrator password, you will need to
reload the factory-default configuration file or reset the Switch back to the factory defaults.

4.8.1 Restore Button

Press the RESTORE button for 2 to 6 seconds to have the Switch automatically reboot.
Press the RESTORE button for more than 6 seconds to have the Switch restore the factory default file.
See Section 3.3 on page 47
Chapter 4 Web Configurator
for more information about the LED behavior.
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