Lindy P16-IP user manual Usage, Prerequisites, Telnet

Section 4 IP Access Configuration & Operation

4.4 Usage

Prerequisites

The P16-IP features an embedded operating system offering a variety of standardized interfaces. This section will describe these interfaces, and the way to use them in a more detailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP protocol family.

The following interfaces are supported:

Telnet

A standard Telnet client can be used to access an arbitrary device connected to the P16-IP’s serial port via a terminal.

HTTP/HTTPS

Full access is provided by the embedded web server. The P16-IP switch environment can be entirely managed using a standard web browser. You can access the P16-IP using the insecure HTTP protocol, or using the encrypted HTTPS protocol. Whenever possible, use HTTPS.

The primary interface of the P16-IP is the HTTP interface. This is covered extensively in this section. Other interfaces are addressed in the relevant subsections.

In order to use the Remote Console window of your managed host system, the browser must feature Java Runtime Environment version 1.1 or higher support. If the browser has no Java support (such as on a small handheld device), you can still maintain your remote host system using the administration forms displayed by the browser itself.

Important: We recommend you install the latest version of Sun’s Java Virtual Machine which can be downloaded from the following web site:

www.java.com

For a non-secure connection to the P16-IP, we recommend the following browsers:

￿Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher

￿Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Mozilla 1.6

In order to access the remote host system using a securely encrypted connection, you need a browser that supports the HTTPS protocol. Strong security is only assured by using a key length of 128 Bit. Some older browsers do not have a strong 128 Bit encryption algorithm.

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