Chapter23 Router Properties
VTYs
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Cisco Router and Security Device Manager Version 2.2 User’s Guide
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Management Protocols

Specify the management protocols allowed for the host or network.
Allow SDM
Check to allow the specified host or network to access SDM. When you check this
box, the following protocols are automatically checked: Telnet, SSH, HTTP,
HTTPS, and RCP. Checking this option does not prevent you from allowing
additional protocols.
If you want to make users employ secure protocols when logging on to SDM,
check Allow secure protocols only. When you check this box, the following
protocols are automatically checked: SSH, HTTPS, RCP. If you then check a
non-secure protocol, such as Telnet, SDM will uncheck Allow secure protocols
only.
You can specify management protocols individually
If you want to specify individual protocols that the host or network ca n use, you
can check any of the boxes: Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, RCP, or
SNMP.
If Telnet and SSH are not enabled (checked) in the VTYs window, and SNMP is
not enabled in the SNMP Properties window, SDM will advise you to enable those
protocols when they are selected in this window.
Note The options Allow secure protocols only, and HTTPS will be disabled if the
router’s Cisco IOS image does not support HTTPS.
Management Access Error Messages
The following error messages may be generated by the Management Access
feature.

SDM Warning: ANY Not Allowed

A management policy will be read only if the source or destination in any of this
policy’s rule entries now contains the keyword “any.” Such policies cannot be
edited in the Management Access window. A policy containing the “any” keyword