Lantronix SLC 8000 manual About this Guide, Purpose and Audience, Summary of Chapters

1:About this Guide

Purpose and Audience

This guide provides the information needed to install, configure, and use the Lantronix® SLC™ 8000 Advanced Console Manager. The SLC unit 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.

Summary of Chapters

The remaining chapters in this guide include:

Chapter	Description
Chapter 2: Introduction	Describes the SLC 8000 models, their main features, and the protocols they
	support.
Chapter 3: Installation	Provides technical specifications; describes connection formats and power
	supplies; provides instructions for installing the SLC 8000 advanced console
	manager in a rack.
Chapter 4: Quick Setup	Provides instructions for getting your SLC unit up and running and for
	configuring required settings.
Chapter 5: Web and	Describes the web and command line interfaces available for configuring
Command Line Interfaces	the SLC 8000 advanced console manager.
	The configuration chapters (6-12) provide detailed instructions for using the
	web interface and include equivalent command line interface commands.
Chapter 6: Basic Parameters	Provides instructions for configuring network ports, firewall and routing
	settings, and VPN.
Chapter 7: Services	Provides instructions for enabling and disabling system logging, SSH and
	Telnet logins, SNMP, SMTP, and the date and time.
Chapter 8: Device Ports	Provides instructions for configuring global device port settings, individual
	device port settings, and console port settings.
Chapter 9: USB/SD Card Port	Provides instructions for using the USB port.
Chapter 10: Connections	Provides instructions for configuring connections and viewing, updating, or
	disconnecting a connection.
Chapter 11: User	Provides instructions for enabling or disabling methods that authenticate
Authentication	users who attempt to log in via the web, SSH, Telnet, or the console port.
	Provides instructions for creating custom menus.
Chapter 12: Maintenance	Provides instructions for upgrading firmware, viewing system logs and
	diagnostics, generating reports, and defining events. Includes information
	about web pages and commands used to shut down and reboot the SLC
	8000 advanced console manager.
Chapter 13: Application	Shows how to set up and use the SLC unit in three different configurations.
Examples
Chapter 14: Command	Lists and describes all of the commands available on the SLC command line
Reference	interface

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