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5	Product communication protocols
TABLE 18		Product communication protocols
Protocol		Description	Management application use	Communicates with device type
NETCONF		The Network Configuration Protocol (NET-	Used to discover all the information on VDX	Network OS
		CONF), is an IETF network management pro-	including Device, Ports, Zoning details and
		tocol. NETCONF provides mechanisms to	so on.
		install, manipulate, and delete the configura-	Also used for configuring various parameters
		tion of network devices. Its operations are	to VDX devices.

realized on top of a simple Remote Proce- dure Call (RPC) layer. The NETCONF protocol uses an Extensible Markup Language (XML) based data encoding for the configuration data as well as the protocol messages. The protocol messages are exchanged on top of a secure transport protocol..

HTTP/HTTPS The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collabor- ative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Inter- net. Technically, it is not a protocol in and of itself; rather, it is the result of simply layering the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on top of the SSL/TLS protocol, thus adding the security capabilities of SSL/TLS to standard HTTP communications.

Used to collect all information required to manage Fabric OS devices.

Used to launch web element manager for IronWare devices.

You can configure the HTTP/HTTPS protocol from the Options dialog box (refer to “Prod- uct communication settings” on page 169).

Fabric OS IronWare

SSH/Telnet Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic net- work protocol for secure data communica- tion, remote command-line login, remote command execution, and other secure net- work services between two networked com- puters that connects, via a secure channel over an insecure network, a server and a cli- ent.

Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented com- munication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

Used to send configurations to IronWare devices.

For Network OS and IronWare products, used to deploy CLI templates created through the CLI Configuration Manager.

You can configure this protocol on the Options dialog box (refer to “Configuring IP communication” on page 171.

IronWare Network OS

FTP	File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard net-
	work protocol used to transfer files from one
	host to another host over a TCP-based net-
	work

Used for firmware download.	Fabric OS
For Fabric OS and Network OS devices, used	Network OS
to collect technical support information.
For Network OS devices, used for configura-
tion management (backup and restore).
For more information, refer to
“FTP/SCP/SFTP server settings” on
page 172.

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