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4. Usage
4.1 Prerequisites
The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE features an embedded operating system offering a variety of
standardized interfaces. This section will describe these interfaces, and the way to use them in
a more detailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP protocol family.
The following interfaces are supported:
Telnet
A standard Telnet client can be used to access an arbitrary device connected to the IP
ACCESS SWITCH LITE’s serial port via a terminal.
HTTP/HTTPS
Full access is provided by the embedded web server. The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE switch
environment can be entirely managed using a standard web browser. You can access the IP
ACCESS SWITCH LITE using the insecure HTTP protocol, or using the encrypted HTTPS
protocol. Whenever possible, use HTTPS.
The primary interface of the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE is the HTTP interface. This is covered
extensively in this section. Other interfaces are addressed in the relevant subsections.
In order to use the Remote Console window of your managed host system, the browser must
feature Java Runtime Environment version 1.1 or higher support. If the browser has no Java
support (such as on a small handheld device), you can still maintain your remote host system
using the administration forms displayed by the browser itself.
Important: We recommend you install the latest version of Sun’s
Java Virtual Machine which can be downloaded from the
following web site:
www.java.com
For a non-secure connection to the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE, we recommend the following
browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher
Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Mozilla 1.6
In order to access the remote host system using a securely encrypted connection, you need a
browser that supports the HTTPS protocol. Strong security is only assured by using a key
length of 128 Bit. Some older browsers do not have a strong 128 Bit encryption algorithm.
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