Enterasys Configuration – Part 1

Enterasys Settings

About Enterasys Configuration, we will talk about a few commands you need to know at the entry level in network switches. As with other network switches, you can make configuration by connecting to the switch via Console, Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS. However, if we are going to connect to a new switch for the first time, it is absolutely necessary to connect via the console method.

Although Enterasys switches are connected with RS-232 cable, they cannot be connected with Cisco, HP or Juniper‘s console cables. You will get a console cable with the utp cable you will connect to the dongle end that comes with Enterasys switches. The dongle is as in the picture.

Let’s connect to the switch from the serial port of our computer with our console cable. We will manage the switch with a console software such as Hyperlink, Putty, Secure CRT. After providing the connections, it will ask us for a user-password. First of all, it is necessary to assign an IP address to be used when you want to connect to the switch from outside the console. For this you need to create ;

default kullanıcı adı: admin
default password:   (empty) // is left and entered with enter.
set ip address 10.10.10.3 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.10.10.1

Let’s find out the IP address of the switch:

show ip address

To view all enterasys configuration running on the switch;

show config

Only if we are going to learn any enterasys configuration, for example to learn ip configuration or vlan configuration;

show config ip
show config vlan

Telnet and Webview are turned on in Enterasys switches and you can turn them off if you want. Let’s turn off Telnet and HTTP management because it creates a security vulnerability.

set webview disabled
set telnet disabled

Keep only SSL and SSH connections open:

set ssh enabled
set ssl enabled

If you have to use the webview connection, using HTTPS (with SSL) does not create any security vulnerability. When typing the device IP in the web browser, add HTTPS at the beginning or add “:443” at the end. In this way, your communication will be encrypted while talking to the switch.

For this, you should run the following command:

set webview enabled ssl-only

To name the switch:

set prompt muhasebe

Enter the number in minutes to set the logout time on the switch. If 0 (zero) is entered, it means infinite:

set logout 60

Time settings:

show time  --> shows the date and time.
set time 22:45:16 07/21/2014   --> hh:mm:ss MM/DD/YYYY

Setting the number of lines (0-512 lines):

set length 256

Note: Commands written in C series switches are written to flash as soon as enter is pressed, but in 800 series switches it is necessary to save with the“save” command.