Lantronix 900-510 manual About This Guide, Purpose and Audience, Chapter Summaries

1: About This Guide

Purpose and Audience

This guide provides the information needed to install, configure, and use the Lantronix® SLB™ branch office manager. The SLB branch office manager is for IT professionals who must remotely and securely configure and administer servers, routers, switches, telephone equipment, or other devices equipped with a serial port for facilities that are typically remote branch offices or "distributed" IT locations.

Chapter Summaries

The remaining chapters in this guide include:

Chapter	Summary
2: Overview	Describes the SLB models, their main features, and the protocols
	they support.
3: Installation	Provides technical specifications; describes connection formats
	and power supplies; provides instructions for installing the SLB
	branch office manager in a rack.
4: Quick Setup	Provides instructions for getting your SLB device up and running
	and for configuring required settings.

5:Web and Command Line Describes the web and command line interfaces available for

Interfaces	configuring the SLB branch office manager.
	Note: The configuration chapters (6-12) provide detailed
	instructions for using the web interface and include equivalent
	command line interface commands.
6: Basic Parameters	Provides instructions for configuring network ports, firewall and
	routing settings, and the date and time.
7: Services	Provides instructions for enabling and disabling system logging,
	SSH and Telnet logins, SNMP, SMTP, and the date and time.
8: Device Ports	Provides instructions for configuring global device port settings,
	individual device port settings, and console port settings.
9: PC Cards	Provides instructions for using the PC Card slot.
10: Connections	Provides instructions for configuring connections and viewing,
	updating, or disconnecting a connection.
11: User Authentication	Provides instructions for enabling or disabling methods that
	authenticate users who attempt to log in via SSH, Telnet, or the
	console port. Provides instructions for creating custom menus.

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