Perle Systems STS, SCS manual Security, Ldap

IOLAN Features

Advanced Features

Advanced IOLAN software features can be found on all IOLAN models except DS and TS models.

zExternal authentication using any of the following systems:

–RADIUS

–Kerberos

–TACACS+

–NIS

–SecurID

–LDAP

zSupport for TCP/IP and UDP protocols.

zDynamic DNS with DYNDNS.org.

zDomain Name Server (DNS) support.

zWINS support for Windows® environments.

zRemote access support including PPP, SLIP, and SLIP with VJ Compression.

zAbility to remotely manage the Perle Remote Power Switch (RPS).

zAbility to cluster several IOLANs.

zEmail alert notification.

zPPP authentication via PAP or CHAP.

zSSH connections (supported ciphers are Blowfish, 3DES, AES, CAST128, and Arcfour).

zSSL/TLS connections.

zLogging via Syslog.

zRIP authentication (via password or MD5).

zSNTP (versions 1, 2, 3, and 4 are supported).

Security

The IOLAN security features can include (depending on your IOLAN model):

zSupervisory and serial port password protection.

zAbility to set serial port access rights.

zAbility to assign users access level rights to control their access.

zTrusted host filtering (IP filtering), allowing only those hosts that have been configured in the IOLAN access to the IOLAN.

zIdle port timers, which close a connection that has not been active for a specified period of time.

zAbility to individually disable network services that won’t be used by the IOLAN.

zSSH client/server connections (SSH 1 and SSH 2).

zSSL/TLS client/server data encryption (TLSv1 and SSLv2).

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