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Product communication protocols
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NETCONF The Network Configuration Protocol (NET-
CONF), is an IETF network management pro-
tocol. NETCONF provides mechanisms to
install, manipulate, and delete the configura-
tion of network devices. Its operations are
realized on top of a simple Remote Proce-
dure Call (RPC) layer. The NETCONF protocol
uses an Extensible Markup Language (XML)
based data encoding for the configuration
data as well as the protocol messages. The
protocol messages are exchanged on top of
a secure transport protocol..
Used to discover all the information on VDX
including Device, Ports, Zoning details and
so on.
Also used for configuring various parameters
to VDX devices.
Network OS
HTTP/HTTPS The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an
application protocol for distributed, collabor-
ative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP
is the foundation of data communication for
the World Wide Web.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
is a communications protocol for secure
communication over a computer network,
with especially wide deployment on the Inter-
net. Technically, it is not a protocol in and of
itself; rather, it is the result of simply layering
the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on top
of the SSL/TLS protocol, thus adding the
security capabilities of SSL/TLS to standard
HTTP communications.
Used to collect all information required to
manage Fabric OS devices.
Used to launch web element manager for
IronWare devices.
You can configure the HTTP/HTTPS protocol
from the Options dialog box (refer to “Prod-
uct communication settings” on page 169).
Fabric OS
IronWare
SSH/Telnet Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic net-
work protocol for secure data communica-
tion, remote command-line login, remote
command execution, and other secure net-
work services between two networked com-
puters that connects, via a secure channel
over an insecure network, a server and a cli-
ent.
Telnet is a network protocol used on the
Internet or local area networks to provide a
bidirectional interactive text-oriented com-
munication facility using a virtual terminal
connection. User data is interspersed
in-band with Telnet control information in an
8-bit byte oriented data connection over the
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
Used to send configurations to IronWare
devices.
For Network OS and IronWare products, used
to deploy CLI templates created through the
CLI Configuration Manager.
You can configure this protocol on the
Options dialog box (refer to “Configuring IP
communication” on page 171.
IronWare
Network OS
FTP File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard net-
work protocol used to transfer files from one
host to another host over a TCP-based net-
work
Used for firmware download.
For Fabric OS and Network OS devices, used
to collect technical support information.
For Network OS devices, used for configura-
tion management (backup and restore).
For more information, refer to
“FTP/SCP/SFTP server settings” on
page 172.
Fabric OS
Network OS
TABLE 18 Product communication protocols
Protocol Description Management application use Communicates with device type