Configuring Access For Network Services - Quantum Scalar i6000 User Manual

Chapter 3: Configuring Your Library
Configuring Library Security
Configuring Access for
Network Services
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The Services tab on the Security Configuration dialog box enables you
to entirely prevent all external access to the library or allow access
according to other security settings on the Security Configuration
dialog box. It also enables you to allow or prevent access by SSH, SSHv1,
and to allow or prevent external attempts to discover the library by
pinging it.
1 Click the Services tab on the Security Configuration dialog box.
2 You can change the security settings for any of the following items:
• Network Interface — To entirely prevent all external access to
the library through the MCB Ethernet port, regardless of other
settings on the Security Configuration dialog box, select
Disable. To allow external access to the library in accordance
with other security settings on the Security Configuration
dialog box, select Enable. (The Network Interface option is
unavailable when accessing the LMC remotely.)
• ICMP — To prevent external attempts to discover the library by
pinging it (by means of Internet Control Message Protocol
[ICMP] Echo packets), select Disable. Using this setting can
prevent denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which can flood the
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