Configuration Menu  91  
 
 
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.