VPN on the OnBoard
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AlterPath OnBoard Administrator’s Guide
VPN on the OnBoard
As described in the
AlterPath OnBoard User’s Guide
, for security reasons an
authorized user must establish a trusted connection with the OnBoard before
accessing certain management features that are available on connected service
processors. (In the user’s guide, see “Native IP” for details about the service
processor management actions that require a trusted connection and see
“Making VPN Connections” for what the user needs to know and do.)
Users can access devices only if an OnBoard administrator has authorized
them to do so. For example, user sherlock may be authorized to access the
OnBoard and two connected devices on the private network, deviceA and
deviceB, while user jedgar may be authorized to access deviceA, deviceC, and
deviceD.
Caution!
Once a user has been authenticated and the user’s authorizations to
access a device have been checked, the user with a VPN connection has
unlimited access to the device. Since the OnBoard cannot control whether a
connected device allows unrestricted access to the rest of the network, the
administrators of connected devices must take care to configure the connected
devices in such a way as to control the access of individual users on individual
devices to maintain the security of the network.
VPN connections establish encrypted communications between the OnBoard
and the remote host. The encryption creates a security tunnel for
communications through an intermediate network which is untrustworthy.
The remote host and the OnBoard take care of encryption and decryption on
their end.
The remote host must have support for one of the following types of VPN:
•
IPSec
•
PPTP
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