Management

Advanced

Overview

Review the configuration options in the Advanced page to determine if any of them apply to your implementation.

Login Tab Field Descriptions

Configure the following parameters:

Use System Name Displays the System Name field value instead of default product name. When

in Prompts enabled, the Server Name is displayed in the IOLAN login prompt, CLI prompt, WebManager login screen, and the heading of the Menu.

Default: Disabled

Display Login This parameter concerns the banner information (product name/software

Banner version). This banner information is presented to a user with a login prompt. For security reasons, you can turn off the display of this information.

Default: Disabled

Use Custom Login When set, and a custom language file is in use, the login prompt will use the

Prompt string defined in the language file as the login prompt instead of the default prompt, login:.

Default: Disabled

Bypass Login

When set, authorized users who do not have a password set, with the exception

Password

of the Admin user, WILL NOT be prompted for a password at login with Local

 

Authentication.

 

Default: Disabled

Use a Generic

When set, and the user connects to the IOLAN using WebManager, the

WebManager

WebManager login screen that is displayed is generic — the Perle banner,

Login Screen

IOLAN model name, and firmware version are not displayed to the user.

 

Default: Disabled

Password Retry

The number of attempts a user is allowed to enter a password for a serial port

Limit

connection from the network, before the connection is terminated and the user

 

has to attempt to login again. For users logging into the serial port, if this limit

 

is exceeded, the serial port is disabled for 5 minutes. A user with Admin level

 

rights can restart the serial port, bypassing the timeout, by issuing a kill on the

 

disabled serial port.

 

Default: 3

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