username

Function

The username command configures the user name and password for logging in to the PM server.

The undo username command deletes the user name and password for logging in to the PM server.

By default, no user name and password for logging in to the PM server are configured.

Format

username user-name password [ password ]

undo username

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Value
password password	Specifies the password for logging in to a PM server. No security requirements of the password are needed when configuring remote server password as Client. We advise the new password is at least eight characters long and contains at least two of the following types: upper-case letters, lower-case letters, digits, and special characters. For security purposes, you are advised to configure a password in ciphertext mode. To further improve device security, peridically change the password.	The password is a string of 1 to 128 case-sensitive characters, spaces or question marks not supported. The ciphertext of a configured password is a string of 24 or 32-268 characters in the configuration file. When quotation marks are used around the string, spaces are allowed in the string.
username user-name	Specifies the user name for logging in to a PM server.	The name is a string of 1 to 255 case-sensitive characters, spaces or question marks not supported. When quotation marks are used around the string, spaces are allowed in the string.

Parameter

Description

Value

password password

Specifies the password for logging in to a PM server.

No security requirements of the password are needed when configuring remote server password as Client.
We advise the new password is at least eight characters long and contains at least two of the following types: upper-case letters, lower-case letters, digits, and special characters.
For security purposes, you are advised to configure a password in ciphertext mode. To further improve device security, peridically change the password.

The password is a string of 1 to 128 case-sensitive characters, spaces or question marks not supported. The ciphertext of a configured password is a string of 24 or 32-268 characters in the configuration file.

When quotation marks are used around the string, spaces are allowed in the string.

username user-name

Specifies the user name for logging in to a PM server.

The name is a string of 1 to 255 case-sensitive characters, spaces or question marks not supported.

When quotation marks are used around the string, spaces are allowed in the string.

Views

PM server view

Default Level

2: Configuration level

Task Name and Operations

Task Name	Operations
perf-mgr	write

Usage Guidelines

Usage Scenario

Before you log in to a PM server for upload performance statistics files to the PM server, run the username password command to configure the user name and password.

Example

# Set the user name to admin and password to 123 for logging in to a PM server.

<HUAWEI> system-view
[~HUAWEI] pm
[~HUAWEI-pm] pm-server a
[*HUAWEI-pm-server-a] username admin password Huawei-123