Connect to the switch via telnet or the serial console and enter config mode
switch# config
Set hostname and contact details
switch(config)# hostname “Procurve2810-Test”
Procurve2810-Test(config)# snmp-server contact “harry@hyperpc.co.uk”
Procurve2810-Test(config)# snmp-server location “Test Rack”
Set timezone and network time protocol details
Procurve2810-Test(config)# timesync sntp
Procurve2810-Test(config)# sntp server 10.10.20.69
Procurve2810-Test(config)# sntp unicast
Set timezone offset from GMT in minutes
Procurve2810-Test(config)# time timezone 600
Enable web management SSL and disable web management plaintext
Procurve2810-Test(config)# crypto key generate cert 1024
Procurve2810-Test(config)# crypto host-cert generate self-signed
Validity start date [10/21/2014]: 10/21/2014
Validity end date [10/21/2015]: 10/21/2019
Common name [0.0.0.0]: 10.136.236.68
Organizational unit [Dept Name]: IT
Organization [Company Name]: Amazing.com
City or location [City]: Birmingham
State name [State]: WM
Country code [US]: UK
Procurve2810-Test(config)# web-management ssl
Procurve2810-Test(config)# no web-management plaintext
Enable SSH and disable telnet
Procurve2810-Test(config)# crypto key generate ssh
Installing new RSA key. If the key/entropy cache is depleted, this could take up to a minute.
Enable SSH version 2 if supported
Procurve2810-Test(config)# ip ssh version 2
Enable SSH version 1 if version 2 isn’t supported
Procurve2810-Test(config)# ip ssh
Procurve2810-Test(config)# no telnet-server
Set username and passwords
Procurve2810-Test(config)# password manager user-name admin
Procurve2810-Test(config)# password operator user-name monitor
Set banner
Procurve2810-Test(config)# banner motd %
#######################################################################
# Authorised Users Only #
# The information on this computer and network is the property of #
# <COMPANY NAME> and is protected by intellectual property #
# rights. Your activities are #
# monitored for security reasons. #
########################################################################
%
Save and view the configuration
Procurve2810-Test(config)# write memory
Procurve2810-Test(config)# show run
References
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01868095/c01868095.pdf
http://www.rienbroekstra.nl/?q=node/18