Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual page 5

BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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Monitoring management module redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Flash memory and PCMCIA flash card file management commands38
Chapter 4 Securing Access to Management Functions
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Securing access methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Restricting remote access to management functions . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Setting up local user accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Determining management module status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Displaying temperature information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Displaying switchover information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Management focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Flash memory file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PCMCIA flash card file system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Wildcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Formatting a flash card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Determining the current management focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Switching the management focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Displaying a directory of the files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Displaying the contents of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Displaying the hexadecimal output of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a subdirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Removing a subdirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Renaming a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Changing the read-write attribute of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Deleting a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Recovering ("undeleting") a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Appending a file to another file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying files using the copy command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying files using the cp command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Loading the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Saving configuration changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
File management messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using ACLs to restrict remote access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Restricting remote access to the device to specific IP addresses66
Specifying the maximum number of login attempts for Telnet access
68
Restricting remote access to the device to specific VLAN IDs . 68
Disabling specific access methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Setting a Telnet password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Setting passwords for management privilege levels . . . . . . . . . 72
Recovering from a lost password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Displaying the SNMP community string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Disabling password encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specifying a minimum password length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configuring a local user account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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