Black Box LES1132A, LES1332A, LES1408A, LES144BA Types of users, Management Console, Console server

10. Nagios Integration	Describes how to set Nagios central management with SDT extensions
	and configure the console server as a distributed Nagios server.
11. System Management	Covers access to and configuration of services that will run on the
	console server.
12. Status Reports	View a dashboard summary and detailed status and logs of serial and
	network connected devices (ports, hosts, power, and environment)
13. Management	Includes port controls that Users can access.
14 Basic Configuration	Command line installation and configuration using the config command.
15. Advanced Config	More advanced command line configuration activities where you will
	need to use Linux commands.

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Types of users

The console server supports two classes of users:

I.First, there are the administrative users who will be authorized to configure and control the console server; and to access and control all the connected devices. These administrative users will be set up as members of the admin user group and any user in this class is referred to generically in this manual as the Administrator. An Administrator can access and control the console server using the config utility, the Linux command line, or the browser-based Management Console. By default, the Administrator has access to all services and ports to control all the serial connected devices and network connected devices (hosts).

II.The second class of users are those who have been set up by the Administrator with specific limits of their access and control authority. These users are set up as members of the users user group (or some other user groups the Administrator may have added). They are only authorized to perform specified controls on specific connected devices and are referred to as Users. These Users (when authorized) can access serial or network connected devices; and control these devices using the specified services (for example, Telnet, HHTPS, RDP, IPMI, Serial over LAN, Power Control). An authorized User also has a limited view of the Management Console and can only access authorized configured devices and review port logs.

In this manual, when the term user (lower case) is used, it refers to both the above classes of users. This document also uses the term remote users to describe users who are not on the same LAN segment as the console server. These remote users may be Users, who are on the road connecting to managed devices over the public Internet, or it may be an Administrator in another office connecting to the console server itself over the enterprise VPN, or the remote user may be in the same room or the same office but connected on a separate VLAN than the console server.

Management Console

The Management Console provides a view of the console server and all the connected devices.

Administrators can use any browser to log into the Management Console either locally or from a remote location. They can then use Management Console to manage the console server, the users, the serial

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