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REMOTE MANAGEMENT

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TELNET

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Telnet is the standard way of providing remote login service. With Telnet, any user on the LAN or WAN executing a standard Telnet client program can remotely login to the CyberSWITCH and get an CyberSWITCH console session. When you have an active console session, CyberSWITCH commands can be entered as if you have a locally-attached keyboard and monitor. Once you use Telnet to login to the CyberSWITCH, it is possible to make configuration changes to the CyberSWITCH using CFGEDIT or the Manage Mode commands.

In the first Telnet illustration (see previous page), the Telnet client is not an CyberSWITCH. It is also possible to use the CyberSWITCH as the Telnet client. This allows you to remotely manage an CyberSWITCH with an CyberSWITCH. The benefit from this is you can now use an CyberSWITCH at your site to perform system maintenance, for example configuration changes, on a remote CyberSWITCH.

The two pictures below illustrate the advantage of the CyberSWITCH Telnet client feature. The first example network shown illustrates previous CyberSWITCH releases. In this example, the administrator forgot to configure a static route on the remote site, System 2. Because System 2 is not

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