Administration Tasks; Administration From The Web Interface - Digi LTS 32 User Manual

5 Administration tasks

This chapter discusses the administration tasks that need to be performed on ConnectPort LTS
products periodically, such as file management, changing the password used for logging onto the
device, backing up and restoring device configurations, updating firmware and Boot/POST code,
restoring the device configuration to factory defaults, and rebooting the device. As with device
configuration and monitoring, it covers performing administrative tasks through a variety of device
interfaces.
It covers these main topics:
 Administration from the web interface
 Administration from the command-line interface

Administration from the web interface

The Administration section of the web interface main menu provides the following choices:
 File Management: For uploading and managing files, such as custom web pages and
initialization files.
 Backup/Restore: For backing up or restoring device configuration settings.
 Python Program File
programming language to ConnectPort LTS products and configuring the programs to execute
automatically at startup.
 Update Firmware: For updating firmware, including Boot and POST code.
 Factory Default Settings: For restoring a device to factory default settings.
 System Information: For displaying general system information for the device and device
statistics.
 Reboot: For rebooting the device.
These administrative tasks are organized elsewhere in the web interface:
 Enable and disable network services. See "Network services settings."
 Enable password authentication for the ConnectPort LTS product. See "User settings."
Management: For uploading custom programs in the Python
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