Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Reference Guide

AAA Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

page 58-61

Configures a moving period of time (observation window) during which failed login attempts are counted 
to determine if the number of failed attempts has exceeded the number of allowed attempts. The number 
of failed login attempts is decremented by the number of failed attempts that age beyond the observation 
window time period. 

user lockout-window minutes

The number of minutes the observation window remains active. The 
range is 0 to 99999.

OmniSwitch 6400, 6850, 6855, 9000, 9000E

• This command is only available to the admin user because the admin user account is the only account 

protected from any type of lockout attempt. 

• Specify 0 with this command to disable the observation window function. This means that failed login 

attempts will never age out; the number of failed attempts is never decremented.

• Do not configure an observation window time period that is greater than the lockout duration time 

period. 

• If the number of failed login attempts exceeds the number of failed attempts allowed before the obser-

vation window time expires, then the user account is locked out of the switch.

• The observation window time period is a global lockout setting that is applied to all passwords config-

ured on the switch.

• Lockout settings are saved automatically; that is, these settings do not require the 

 command to save user settings over a reboot.

-> user lockout-window 500

-> user lockout-window 0 

Release 6.3.1; command was introduced.

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