Enabling And Disabling Remote Access To The Stack - IBM 8271 Nways F12 User Manual

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HAPTER ORKING
Enabling and
Disabling Remote
Access to the Stack
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ITH THE OMMAND INE
The following prompt is displayed, allowing you to re-enter the new
password as conformation:
Retype password:
A message is displayed informing you that the password has been
successfully changed.
As a basic security measure, you can enable or disable remote access to
the management software of the stack:
When remote access is enabled, you can access the management
software using all management methods.
When remote access is disabled:
Users cannot access the stack over the network using the
command line interface
Users cannot access the stack over the network using the web
interface
Users cannot access the Switch using an SNMP Network
Manager
Users can only access the command line interface or web
interface using a direct connection the console port of a Switch
unit in the stack.
You can enable or disable remote access to the management software
of the stack using the remoteAccess command on the System menu.
To enable or disable remote access:
1 At the top-level menu, enter:
system remoteAccess
2 The following prompt is displayed:
Enter new value (enabled,disabled) [Enabled]:
3 Enter enabled or disabled as required.
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