Setting Up Default Device Contact Information - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

Figure 9: Adding Devices to Ridgeline Individually
Ridgeline pre-fills the fields in the window with the default communication information—you can
change it as appropriate.

Setting Up Default Device Contact Information

For simplicity in managing multiple devices in large networks, administrators typically use the same
logins, passwords, community strings and so on, for multiple devices. Therefore, to save time when
adding new devices, Ridgeline provides default values for these communication parameters.
To save time when you add your own network devices to the Ridgeline inventory, you can configure
the default values to those used in your own network.
To change the default communication values, select Default communications settings from the Tools
menu.
Ridgeline uses the Extreme default values for its switches as the defaults in Ridgeline:
Login as admin with no password
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SSH2 disabled
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For Cisco devices only, the default Cisco enable password (none)
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Default SNMP v1 community strings public (for read) and private (for write)
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SNMP V3 user initialmd5
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SNMP V3 privacy set to No Privacy, with no password
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SNMP V3 authentication set to MD5 Authentication, with password initialmd5
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You can change any of these as appropriate for your network installation. You can also override the
defaults for any individual device or set of devices when you initially add the devices to Ridgeline, or
by selecting the device in Network Views and selecting Modify communications settings from the
Device menu.
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