Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual page 5

BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
53-1002253-01
Flash memory and PCMCIA flash card file management
commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4 Securing Access to Management Functions
Securing access methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Restricting remote access to management functions . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Setting up local user accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Configuring SSL security for the Web Management Interface . . . . . 81
Management focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Flash memory file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
PCMCIA flash card file system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Wildcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Formatting a flash card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Determining the current management focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching the management focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Displaying a directory of the files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Displaying the contents of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Displaying the hexadecimal output of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating a subdirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Removing a subdirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Renaming a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Changing the read-write attribute of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Deleting a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Recovering ("undeleting") a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Appending a file to another file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying files using the copy command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying files using the cp command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Loading the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Saving configuration changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
File management messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Using ACLs to restrict remote access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Restricting remote access to the device to specific
IP addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Specifying the maximum number of login attempts for
Telnet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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 . . . . . . . . . 71
Recovering from a lost password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Displaying the SNMP community string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Disabling password encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specifying a minimum password length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Configuring a local user account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Username, password and login rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Configuring the strict password feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Enabling the SSL server on the device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Importing digital certificates and RSA private key files. . . . . . . 81
Generating an SSL certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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