7600 Card Management
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Security
SNMP security is provided through community strings. A community
string is included in each SNMP protocol message sent between external
management applications and the 7600 Card.
The default community strings are:
Access Unit agent -
Q
read : ‘public AU’
Q
write : ‘private AU’
Proxy to bridge agents -
Q
read : ‘public’
Q
write : ‘private’
The SNMP agent authorizes requests from the SNMP manager by
comparing the community name in the received packet with the
community string in the 7600 Card.
Local management security is provided through passwords. Three user
access levels exist: read, write, admin.
Virtual Terminal
Protocols
A virtual terminal protocol is a software program, such as Rlogin or
Telnet, that allows establishment of a management session from a PC or
a workstation. Since rlogin and Telnet run over TCP/IP, at least one IP
address must be configured on the 7600 Card to access it with a virtual
terminal protocol.
Terminal emulation differs from a virtual terminal protocol in that it
connects a terminal directly to the serial line (out-of-band).
Figure 14-5 shows a 7600 Card being accessed by a workstation through
a virtual terminal protocol and through a terminal.
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