Viewing The Serial Number; How To Set System Parameters; How To Change The Telnet Session Timeout - Allied Telesis SwitchBlade x908 Series Software Reference Manual

Getting Started

Viewing the serial number

The switch's serial number is displayed in the output of the show system command, but for
convenience, you can also display it by itself. To do this, enter User Exec or Privileged Exec
mode and enter the command:
The output looks like this:

How to set system parameters

You can set system parameters to personalize the switch and make it easy to identify it when
troubleshooting. This section describes how to configure the following system parameters:
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How to change the telnet session timeout

By default, telnet sessions time out after 10 minutes of idle time. If desired, you can change this.
To change the timeout for all telnet sessions, enter Global Configuration mode and enter the
commands:
The new timeout value only applies to new sessions, not current sessions.
Examples To set the timeout to 30 minutes, enter the command:
To set the timeout to 30 seconds, enter the command:
To set the timeout to infinity, so that sessions never time out, enter either of the commands:
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awplus#
P1FY7502C
telnet session timeout
switch name
login banner
awplus(config)#
awplus(config-line)#
awplus(config-line)#
awplus(config-line)#
awplus(config-line)#
awplus(config-line)#
Software Reference for SwitchBlade® x908, x900 and x600 Series Switches
TM
AlliedWare Plus Operating System - Software Version 5.3.1
show system serialnumber
line vty 0 32
exec-timeout <new-timeout>
exec-timeout 30
exec-timeout 0 30
no exec-timeout
exec-timeout 0 0
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