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Table 78 System Configuration Menu options
Command Usage
date Prompts the user for the system date.
time Configures the system time using a 24-hour clock format.
timezone Configures the time zone where the switch resides. You are prompted
to select your location (continent, country, region) by the timezone
wizard. Once a region is selected, the switch updates the time to
reflect local changes to Daylight Savings Time, etc.
idle <1-60> Sets the idle timeout for CLI sessions, from 1 to 60 minutes. The default
is 5 minutes.
This setting affects both the console port and Telnet port.
notice <1-1024 character multi-
line> <'-' to end>
Displays login notice immediately before the “Enter password:”
prompt. This notice can contain up to 1024 characters and new lines.
bannr <1-80 characters>
Configures a login banner of up to 80 characters. When a user or
administrator logs into the switch, the login banner is displayed. It is
also displayed as part of the output from the
/info/sys/gen
command.
hprompt disable|enable Enables or disables displaying of the host name (system administrator’s
name) in the command line interface.
bootp disable|enable Enables or disables the use of BOOTP. If you enable BOOTP, the
switch will query its BOOTP server for all of the switch IP parameters.
The default value is
enabled.
dhcp disable|enable Enables or disables Dynamic Host Control Protocol for setting the
management IP address on interface 256. When enabled, the IP
address obtained from the DHCP server overrides the static IP address.
The default value is
enabled.
reminders disable|enable Enables or disables reminder messages in the CLI. The default value is
enabled.
cur Displays the current system parameters.
System host log configuration
Command: /cfg/sys/syslog
[Syslog Menu]
host - Set IP address of first syslog host
host2 - Set IP address of second syslog host
sever - Set the severity of first syslog host
sever2 - Set the severity of second syslog host
facil - Set facility of first syslog host
facil2 - Set facility of second syslog host
console - Enable/disable console output of syslog messages
log - Enable/disable syslogging of features
cur - Display current syslog settings
The following table describes the Syslog Configuration Menu options.
Table 79 Syslog Configuration Menu options
Command Description
host <IP address> Sets the IP address of the first syslog host. For example,
100.10.1.1
host2 <IP address> Sets the IP address of the second syslog host. For example,
100.10.1.2
sever <1-7> Sets the severity level of the first syslog host displayed. The
default is 7, which means log all the severity levels.
