Good Habits For Managing The Switch - ZyXEL Communications GS3700 Series User Manual

• Web Configurat or. This is recom m ended for everyday m anagem ent of t he Swit ch using a
( support ed) web browser. See
• Com m and Line I nt erface. Line com m ands offer an alt ernat ive t o t he Web Configurat or and m ay
be necessary t o configure advanced feat ures. See t he CLI Reference Guide.
• FTP . Use File Transfer Prot ocol for firm ware upgrades and configurat ion backup/ rest ore. See
Sect ion 47.9 on page
• SNMP . The device can be m onit ored and/ o r m anaged by an SNMP m anager. See
page 459.

1.3 Good Habits for Managing the Switch

Do t he following t hings regularly t o m ake t he Swit ch m ore secure and t o m anage t he Swit ch m ore
effect ively.
• Change t he password. Use a password t hat 's not easy t o guess and t hat consist s of different
t ypes of charact ers, such as num bers and let t ers.
• Writ e down t he password and put it in a safe place .
• Back up t he configurat ion ( and m ake sure you know how t o rest ore it ) . Rest oring an earlier
working configurat ion m ay be useful if t he device becom es unst able or even crashes. I f you
forget your password, you will have t o reset t he Swit ch t o it s fact ory default set t ings. I f you
backed up an earlier configurat ion file, you would not have t o t ot ally re- configure t he Swit ch. You
could sim ply rest ore your last configurat ion.
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