Server User Manual
Table Of Contents
- SDS/SCS/STS/MDC User’s Guide
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Hardware and Connectivity
- Configuration Methods
- Getting Started
- Using DeviceManager and WebManager
- Network Settings
- Configuring Serial Ports
- Introduction
- Serial Ports
- Serial Port Profiles
- Common Tabs
- Console Management Profile
- TruePort Profile
- TCP Sockets Profile
- UDP Sockets Profile
- Terminal Profile
- User Service Settings
- Printer Profile
- Serial Tunneling Profile
- Virtual Modem Profile
- Control Signal I/O Profile
- Modbus Gateway Profile
- Power Management Profile
- Remote Access (PPP) Profile
- Remote Access (SLIP) Profile
- Custom Application Profile
- Port Buffering
- Advanced
- Configuring Users
- Configuring Security
- Configuring I/O Interfaces
- Configuring Clustering
- Configuring the Option Card
- Configuring the System
- Controlling the RPS, I/O Channels, and IPsec Tunnels
- System Administration
- Introduction
- Managing Configuration Files
- Downloading IOLAN Firmware
- Calibrating I/O
- Setting the IOLAN’s Date and Time
- Rebooting the IOLAN
- Resetting the IOLAN to Factory Defaults
- Resetting the SecurID Node Secret
- Language Support
- Downloading Terminal Definitions
- Resetting Configuration Parameters
- Lost Admin Password
- Applications
- RADIUS and TACACS+
- SSL/TLS Ciphers
- Virtual Modem AT Commands
- Pinouts and Cabling Diagrams
- Setting Jumpers
- I/O Wiring Diagrams
- Utilities
- Accessories
- Troubleshooting
- Introduction
- Hardware Troubleshooting
- Communication Issues
- DeviceManager Problems
- Host Problems
- RADIUS Authentication Problems
- Login Problems
- Problems with Terminals
- Unknown IP Address
- DHCP/BOOTP Problems
- Callback Problems
- Language Problems
- Modem Problems
- PPP Problems
- Printing Problems
- Long Reboot Cycle
- SSL/TLS
- I/O Models
- IPv6 Issues
- Contacting Technical Support
- Glossary
- Index
IOLAN Features
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Advanced Features
Advanced IOLAN software features can be found on all IOLAN models except DS and TS models.
z External authentication using any of the following systems:
– RADIUS
– Kerberos
– TACACS+
– NIS
– SecurID
– LDAP
z Support for TCP/IP and UDP protocols.
z Dynamic DNS with DYNDNS.org.
z Domain Name Server (DNS) support.
z WINS support for Windows
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environments.
z Remote access support including PPP, SLIP, and SLIP with VJ Compression.
z Ability to remotely manage the Perle Remote Power Switch (RPS).
z Ability to cluster several IOLANs.
z Email alert notification.
z PPP authentication via PAP or CHAP.
z SSH connections (supported ciphers are Blowfish, 3DES, AES, CAST128, and Arcfour).
z SSL/TLS connections.
z Logging via Syslog.
z RIP authentication (via password or MD5).
z SNTP (versions 1, 2, 3, and 4 are supported).
Security
The IOLAN security features can include (depending on your IOLAN model):
z Supervisory and serial port password protection.
z Ability to set serial port access rights.
z Ability to assign users access level rights to control their access.
z Trusted host filtering (IP filtering), allowing only those hosts that have been configured in the
IOLAN access to the IOLAN.
z Idle port timers, which close a connection that has not been active for a specified period of time.
z Ability to individually disable network services that won’t be used by the IOLAN.
z SSH client/server connections (SSH 1 and SSH 2).
z SSL/TLS client/server data encryption (TLSv1 and SSLv2).