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Manageable Mosaic switch Installation and User Guide
5 5 D e v i c e S e c u r i t y
D e v i c e S e c u r i t y
5.1
Securing Management Access
There are three ways to remotely manage the manageable Mosaic switch device: from the Embedded
web interface application, via any Web browser or Telnet. The manageable Mosaic switch provides
various advanced methods for securing the remote management access. The management access
security features, provided for the different management applications, are listed in the table, below,
Table 5-1 Remote Management Access Security
Methods of Security Management
Community Strings (SNMP)
Get
Community
strings.
User Access Levels
Three password protected user access
levels.
Management Access List
Restricts access only to managers whose
IP address is defined on this list (white list).
Management Access Path
Restricts access through either the user or
backbone ports.
VLAN Secured Management
Assigns specific VLAN for management in
order to isolate and secure management
traffic and avoid management flooding by
irrelevant traffic.
Web Management User's Authentication
Authentication
access via a Radius server (see Section
5.1.7).
and
Set
Community
of
Web
management
SUMMARY
Embedded
Web
Management
web
interface
Application
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
--
Yes
Telnet
--
Yes
(Single level)
Yes
Yes
Yes
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