Security
Management Access Method
344 Cisco Small Business 200, 300 and 500 Series Managed Switch Administration Guide (Internal Version) 
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A caution message displays if you selected any other access profile, warning you 
that, depending on the selected access profile, you might be disconnected from 
the web-based configuration utility.
STEP  3 Click OK to select the active access profile or click Cancel to discontinue the 
action. 
STEP  4 Click Add to open the Add Access Profile page. The page allows you to configure 
a new profile and one rule. 
STEP  5 Enter the Access Profile Name. This name can contain up to 32 characters.
STEP  6 Enter the parameters.
• Rule Priority—Enter the rule priority. When the packet is matched to a rule, 
user groups are either granted or denied access to the device. The rule 
priority is essential to matching packets to rules, as packets are matched on 
a first-match basis. One is the highest priority.
• Management Method—Select the management method for which the rule 
is defined. The options are:
- All—Assigns all management methods to the rule.
- Telnet—Users requesting access to the device that meets the Telnet 
access profile criteria are permitted or denied access.
- Secure Telnet (SSH)—Users requesting access to the device that meets 
the SSH access profile criteria, are permitted or denied access.
- HTTP— Users requesting access to the device that meets the HTTP 
access profile criteria, are permitted or denied.
- Secure HTTP (HTTPS)—Users requesting access to the device that 
meets the HTTPS access profile criteria, are permitted or denied.
- SNMP—Users requesting access to the device that meets the SNMP 
access profile criteria are permitted or denied.
• Action—Select the action attached to the rule. The options are:
- Permit—Permits access to the device if the user matches the settings in 
the profile.
- Deny—Denies access to the device if the user matches the settings in 
the profile.
• Applies to Interface—Select the interface attached to the rule. The options 
are: