Digi 90000566_H manual Using Pinholes to Manage the Digi Cellular Family Device

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Using Pinholes to Manage the Digi Cellular Family Device

IP pass-through uses a concept called pinholes. You can configure the Digi Cellular Family device to listen on specific TCP ports, and terminate those connections at the Digi Cellular Family device for purposes of managing it. Those ports are called pinholes, and they are not passed on to the device connected to the Ethernet port of the Digi Cellular Family device. Each pinhole command option specifies whether the network service and port are passed on to the device connected to the Ethernet port of the Digi Cellular Family device, or terminate at the Digi Cellular Family device. Network services or applications and ports that can be configured as pinholes include:

•Telnet network service: for accessing the device through a Telnet login and the command-line.

•SSH network service: for accessing to the device through a Secure Shell (SSH) login and the command-line.

•HTTP network service: for accessing the device through HTTP and the Web user interface.

•HTTPS network service: for accessing to the device through HTTPS and the Web user interface

•SNMP network service: for monitoring and managing the device through SNMP.

•Connectware Manager application (client-initiated connection)

•Digi SureLink application

For more information on the network services, see "set service" on page 191.

Connectware Manager and Digi SureLink applications are automatically set up as pinholes so that they continue to work with the Digi Cellular Family device.

In addition, the Digi Cellular Family device uses a private address on the Ethernet interface strictly for use in configuration or local access. This allows a user on the local network to gain access to the Web user interface or a Telnet session to make configuration changes.

Remote Device Management and IP Pass-through

The Digi Cellular Family device allows you to enable pinholes for specific ports to allow remote users to manage the Digi Cellular Family device from the mobile network or open Internet. The Digi Cellular Family device retains its remote management capabilities using Connectware Manager. The necessary pinholes are automatically defined when the Digi Cellular Family device is configured for IP Pass-through.This provides administrators with the same remote-management capabilities that exist in Digi remote devices.

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