Table Of Contents - Avocent Cyclades ACS Installation/Administration/User Manual

T A B L E O F C ON T E N T S

Table of Contents

List of Figures ................................................................................................................ vii
List of Tables ................................................................................................................... xi
Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................... 1
Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 1
Connectors on the ACS Console Server ............................................................................................ 1
Accessing the ACS Console Server and Connected Devices ............................................................. 2
Web Manager..................................................................................................................................... 2
Prerequisites for Using the Web Manager ........................................................................................ 3
Types of Users.................................................................................................................................... 3
Security .............................................................................................................................................. 3
Authentication .................................................................................................................................... 5
VPN .................................................................................................................................................... 6
Packet Filtering ................................................................................................................................. 6
Structure of IP filtering............................................................................................................... 6
Add rule and edit rule options .................................................................................................... 7
SNMP ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Notifications, Alarms and Data Buffering ......................................................................................... 9
Syslog servers ............................................................................................................................. 9
Managing Users of Connected Devices............................................................................................. 9
Configuring access to connected devices ................................................................................. 10
ACS Console Server and Power Management ................................................................................ 10
Configuring power management .............................................................................................. 10
Options for managing power .................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 2: Installation ................................................................................................... 13
Supplied with the ACS Console Server ............................................................................................ 13
Important Pre-installation Requirements ........................................................................................ 14
Basic Installation Procedures.......................................................................................................... 14
Making an Ethernet connection................................................................................................ 15
Making a direct connection to configure the network parameters........................................... 15
Powering up the console server and the connected devices..................................................... 16
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