Overview Of Appliance Settings Options; Table 3.2: Appliance Settings Overview - Avocent Cyclades ACS 6000 Installation & Administrators Manual

Overview of Appliance Settings Options

The following table provides an overview of the tools under Appliance Settings that are used by
administrators to configure the system.

Table 3.2: Appliance Settings Overview

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Global Settings
• Sessions
• Sensors
Network
• IPv6
• Devices
• Bonding
• IPv4 Static Routes
• IPv6 Static Routes
• DNS
• Hosts
Ports
• Physical Ports
• CAS Profile
• Dial-in Profile
• Power Profile
Pluggable Devices
Security
• Security Profile
• Custom
• DSView
Authentication
• Appliance Authentication
• Authentication Servers
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• Click Sessions to configure global session parameters for idle timeout, data
logging, destination, timestamp and alert strings.
• Click Sensors to set maximum and minimum temperature values to generate
alarms.
• Click IPv6 to enable or disable IPv6 protocol for the console server.
• Click Devices to get the name and status of the device and to enable and
configure the IP address for the eth0 and eth1 interfaces.
• Click Bonding to enable or disable failover to eth1 if eth0 fails.
• Click IPv4 Static Routes or IPv6 Static Routes to add a static route or modify
the default route.
• Click DNS to specify the console server hostname and primary and
secondary domain name servers.
• Click Hosts to add or delete host table entries.
• Click Physical Ports to enable and configure the serial and aux ports.
• Click CAS Profile to configure the following for ports connected to device
consoles and configured with the CAS Profile: data buffering and syslogging,
communication protocols (Telnet/SSH), authenticating and other
communications parameters, port names, power management while
connected, auto discovery and auto answer settings.
• Click Dial-in Profile to configure ports connected to modems and to configure
secure dial-in settings such as one time password login, PPP connections
and PPP/PAP authentication, and to configure callback, and PPP
passphrases for OTP users.
• Click Power Profile to (optionally) change the login password for each type of
PDU device to match any changes made on the PDU and to configure groups
of outlets.
Click Pluggable Devices to insert, configure and eject pluggable devices that are
inserted into the PC card slots.
• Click Security Profile to configure your security profile and other security
parameters (PC Card Detection, RPC and whether port access is controlled
by authorizations assigned to user groups).
• Click Custom to create a custom security profile.
• Click DSView to enable the appliance to be managed by DSView or to clear
the DSView certificate.
• Click Appliance Authentication to configure authentication for the console
server. (Configure port authentication under Ports - CAS Profile - Default
Settings - General.)
• Click Authentication Server to specify the network authentication server.
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