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System Configuration

This section describes how to configure your Cumulus Linux switch. You can set the date and time, configure authentication, authorization, and accounting and configure access control lists (ACLs), which control the traffic entering your network.

This section also describes the services and daemons that Cumulus Linux uses, and describes how to configure switchd, the daemon at the heart of Cumulus Linux.

An overview of the Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) is also provided.