Black Box LES1348A, LES1332A, LES1408A, LES144BA, LES1416A Management network configuration, SSHTerm

 To use PuTTY for an SSH terminal session from a Windows client, enter the console server’s IP address as the ”Host Name (or IP address).”

 To access the console server command line, select “SSH” as the protocol, and use the default IP Port 22.

 Click “Open” and the console server login prompt will appear. (You may also receive a “Security Alert” that the host’s key is not cached. Choose “yes” to continue.)

 Using the Telnet protocol is similarly simple - but you use the default port 23.

3.5.3SSHTerm

Another popular communications package you can use is SSHTerm, an open source package that you can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshtools

To use SSHTerm for an SSH terminal session from a Windows Client, simply Select the “File” option and click on “New Connection.”

A new dialog box will appear for your “Connection Profile.” Type in the host name or IP address (for the console server unit) and the TCP port that the SSH session will use (port 22). Then type in your username, choose password authentication, and click connect.

You may receive a message about the host key fingerprint. Select “yes” or “always” to continue.

The next step is password authentication. The system prompts you for your username and password from the remote system. This logs you on to the console server

3.6Management network configuration

The LES1508A, LES1408A, LES1416A, LES1432A, LES1448A, LES1308A, LES1316A, LES1332A, LES1348A, LES1208A-R2, LES1216A-R2, LES1232A and LES1248A-R2 console servers have a second network port that you can configure as a management LAN port or as a failover/ OOB access port.

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