Cisco Sg2008 Manual

Administration
Managing User Accounts
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As you enter a password, the number and color of vertical bars changes to 
indicate the password strength, as follows:
•Red—The password fails to meet the minimum complexity requirements. 
The text “Below Minimum” displays to the right of the meter.
•Orange—The password meets the minimum complexity requirements but 
the password strength is weak. The text “Weak” displays to the right of the 
meter....

Administration
Enabling Management Services
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Enabling Management Services
Use the Management Ser vices page to enable and disable the available types of 
management connections. By default, HTTP access is enabled. 
Configuring the Idle Session Timeout
The software automatically logs users off the management interface when there is 
no activity for a specified period of time. The user must reauthenticate after a 
timeout. You can use the Idle Ses...

Administration
Login Histor y
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•Authentication Method—Lists the protocol used to authenticate the 
session login. It can be Radius, Local, or None.
Login History
You can use the Login Histor y page to display data on previous logins to the 
management software. To display this page, click Administration > Login History 
in the navigation window.
This page displays the following fields:
•Login Time—Date and time the user logged in.
•User Name—Name...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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By default, the time is configured locally on the switch. 
NOTEThe actual system time, date, time zone information, and daylight savings time 
status appears at the bottom of the page.
Specifying Clock Settings Locally
To configure the time settings locally:
STEP 1On the System Time page, select Use Local Settings.
STEP  2Select Timezone Source - DHCP if you want to have the switch to acquire its 
timezone...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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•USA/European/Other—Select USA or European to have the DST offset 
c o n f i g u r e d  t o  t h e  v a l u e s  u s e d  i n  t h o s e  l o c a t i o n s .  O r  s e l e c t  Other to configure 
the settings manually. When configuring manually, you can configure the 
settings for the upcoming DST period only, or you can configure recurring 
settings.
•DST Time Zone Acronym—Specify an optional acronym up...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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NOTE: If the Timezone Source - DHCP setting is enabled and time zone 
information is received from the DHCP ser ver, then that information will be used to 
adjust instead of the manually configured GMT Time Zone Offset and Acronym.
STEP  5Configure the Daylight Savings Time settings, as described in step 5 in Specifying 
Clock Set tings Locally.
STEP  6Click Apply. Your changes are saved to the Running...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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•Client Port—The logical port number to use for the SNTP client on the 
switch. The default is the well-known IANA port number for this service, 123.
•Unicast Poll Interval—The relative rate at which the switch sends 
synchronization messages to the SNTP server. This field is editable only 
when SNTP Unicast reception is selected. Enter a value from 3 to 16. The 
default value is 3. The actual interval, in...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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-Server Kiss of Death—SNTP server has replied with a kiss of death 
packet, instructing the switch to stop sending requests to the server, due 
to traffic spikes or other error conditions.
-Other—The status could not be determined.
•Last Response—Time of the last response from the SNTP server.
•Version—SNTP protocol version the server uses.
•Port—Protocol port number (123 is a well-known port number for...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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•Port—Specify the UDP port number to be specified in the SNTP message 
headers. By default, the port number is the well-known IANA value of 123.
•Version—Specify the highest SNTP version (1–4) that the server supports.
STEP  3Click Apply and then click Close. Your changes are saved to the Running 
Configuration.
Viewing Active Server Properties and Global Parameters
The SNTP Setting page displays the...

Administration
Ti m e  S e t t i n g s
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•Last Unicast Attempt Time—The time of the most recent attempt by the 
switch to synchronize with an SNTP unicast server.
•Client Mode—The configured SNTP client mode (Unicast or Broadcast). 
See the System Time to configure this mode.
•Server Maximum Entries—Maximum number of servers that you can 
configure on the switch.
•Server Current Entries—Number of SNTP servers currently configured on 
the system,...