Preface

About This Book

This guide provides the information you need to:

zconfigure the IOLAN using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

Intended Audience

This guide is for administrators who will be configuring the IOLAN.

Some prerequisite knowledge is needed to understand the concepts and examples in this guide:

zIf you are using an external authentication application(s), working knowledge of the authentication application(s).

zKnowledge of TFTP, the transfer protocol the IOLAN uses.

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At the C: prompt, type:

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add host

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Set the value to TRUE.

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an actual value or identifier that you should use or that is

 

used in a code example.

subscribe project subject

run yourcode.exec

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IOLAN User’s Guide

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IOLAN SDS/SCS/STS CLI Reference Guide, Version 3.6

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