Cisco ACE-4710-K9 Administration Guide - Page 38

Assigning a Name to the ACE Chapter 1 Setting Up the ACE Assigning a Name to the ACE The hostname is used for the command-line prompts and default configuration filenames. If you establish sessions to multiple devices, the hostname helps you track where you enter commands. By default, the hostname for the ACE is "switch." To specify a hostname for the ACE, use the host configuration mode command. The syntax of this command is as follows: hostname name The name argument specifies a new hostname for the ACE. Enter a case-sensitive text string that contains from 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters. For example, to change the hostname of the ACE from switch to ACE_1, enter the following command: switch/Admin(config)# hostname ACE_1 ACE_1/Admin(config)# Configuring an ACE Inactivity Timeout By default, the inactivity timeout value is 5 minutes. You can modify the length of time that can occur before the ACE automatically logs off an inactive user by using the login timeout command in configuration mode. This command specifies the length of time that a user session can be idle before the ACE terminates the console, Telnet, or SSH session. Note The login timeout command setting overrides the terminal session-timeout setting (see the "Configuring Terminal Display Attributes" section). The syntax for the login timeout command is as follows: login timeout minutes The minutes argument specifies the length of time that a user can be idle before the ACE terminates the session. Valid entries are from 0 to 60 minutes. A value of 0 instructs the ACE never to timeout. The default is 5 minutes. 1-12 Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Administration Guide OL-11157-01