Table of Contents
Advertisement
7 Managing Switch Security
Switch security is provided on the switch for all available management interfaces. The switch may be set
up to allow or deny access through any of these interfaces.
In This Chapter
This chapter describes how to set up switch management interfaces through the Command Line Interface
(CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for more details about the syntax of
commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.
An overview of switch security is given in this chapter. In addition, configuration procedures described in
this chapter include:
•
"Configuring Authenticated Switch Access" on page 7-6
•
"Setting Up Management Interfaces for ASA" on page 7-9
•
"Configuring Accounting for ASA" on page 7-11
A user login procedure requires that users are authenticated for switch access via an external authentica-
tion server or the local user database. For information about setting up user accounts locally on the switch,
see
Chapter 6, "Managing Switch User Accounts."
are configured with user information, see the "Managing Authentication Servers" chapter in the Network
Configuration Guide.
This chapter describes how to enable/disable access for management interfaces. For information about
basic login on the switch, see
OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Switch Management Guide
For information about setting up external servers that
Chapter 1, "Logging Into the Switch."
March 2011
page 7-1
Advertisement
Table of Contents
