User`s guide

Chapter 3 Configuration 35
Procedure
1. Click Security > and enter a new password for the root administrator.
2. Enter the confirmation password and click Apply.
3. Click Network Security and select the security level appropriate to your
environment and click Apply.
Note: Secure Access Levels -
Secure: SSH is the only service available to inbound users.
High: SSH, HTTP, SNMP, and RealPort services are available to inbound
users.
Normal: all services are available.
Custom, which means you can select services to turn off.
The default service level is Normal.
4. Click RADIUS and select Authenticate users via RADIUS server.
Note: If you do not have RADIUS available, Click Apply and then Reboot
5. Enter the Primary server’s IP address and Primary server’s secret and
click Apply.
Note: The Primary server’s secret is the password used for encryption of messages
between the RADIUS server and the Digi device.
6. Click Reboot for changes to take effect.
System Configuration
System settings allow you to tune the performance optimizing throughput
or latency, the date and time, PPP connections, SNMP traps, and Baud
rates for MEI.
1. Click System and enter the System Description (network name
assigned to the Digi device), Contact (SNMP contact person -often the
network administrator), Location (text description of the physical
location of the Digi device), and Optimization (bandwidth used on the
network) and click Apply
Note: Latency - Allows fast access to time-sensitive devices. Requires more
network bandwidth.
Throughput - Allows better network performance at higher throughput.
2. Click Date/Time
Note: If you do not have Date/Time available, Click Reboot
3. Enter the date and time information and click Apply.
4. Click Reboot for changes to take effect.
PPP Settings
Under System Configuration, users can set the PPP (Point-to-Point
Protocol) options to enable or disable the dynamic IP address pool. The
dynamic IP address pool is a set of reserved IP addresses unique to the
network that are assigned to the incoming connections. Users set the first
IP address to use and the number of sequential addresses (plus one) to be
reserved for assignment.
1. Click PPP.