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10. Nagios Integration Describes how to set Nagios central management with SDT extensions
and configure the console server as a distributed Nagios server.
11. System Management Covers access to and configuration of services that will run on the
console server.
12. Status Reports View a dashboard summary and detailed status and logs of serial and
network connected devices (ports, hosts, power, and environment)
13. Management Includes port controls that Users can access.
14 Basic Configuration Command line installation and configuration using the config command.
15. Advanced Config More advanced command line configuration activities where you will
need to use Linux commands.
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Types of users
The console server supports two classes of users:
I. First, there are the administrative users who will be authorized to configure and control the console
server; and to access and control all the connected devices. These administrative users will be set up
as members of the admin user group and any user in this class is referred to generically in this
manual as the Administrator. An Administrator can access and control the console server using the
config utility, the Linux command line, or the browser-based Management Console. By default, the
Administrator has access to all services and ports to control all the serial connected devices and
network connected devices (hosts).
II. The second class of users are those who have been set up by the Administrator with specific limits of
their access and control authority. These users are set up as members of the users user group (or
some other user groups the Administrator may have added). They are only authorized to perform
specified controls on specific connected devices and are referred to as Users. These Users (when
authorized) can access serial or network connected devices; and control these devices using the
specified services (for example, Telnet, HHTPS, RDP, IPMI, Serial over LAN, Power Control). An
authorized User also has a limited view of the Management Console and can only access authorized
configured devices and review port logs.
In this manual, when the term user (lower case) is used, it refers to both the above classes of users. This
document also uses the term remote users to describe users who are not on the same LAN segment as
the console server. These remote users may be Users, who are on the road connecting to managed
devices over the public Internet, or it may be an Administrator in another office connecting to the
console server itself over the enterprise VPN, or the remote user may be in the same room or the same
office but connected on a separate
VLAN than the console server.
Management Console
The Management Console provides a view of the console server and all the connected devices.
Administrators can use any browser to log into the Management Console either locally or from a remote
location. They can then use Management Console to manage the console server, the users, the serial
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