10.4.2 Basic Nagios Plug-Ins.......................................................................................................................................................................103
10.4.3 Number of Supported Devices .......................................................................................................................................................103
11. System Management.............................................................................................................................................................................................106
11.1 System Administration and Reset..............................................................................................................................................................106
11.2 Upgrade Firmware .......................................................................................................................................................................................107
11.3 Configure Date and Time...........................................................................................................................................................................108
11.4 Configuration Backup .................................................................................................................................................................................108
12. Status Reports ........................................................................................................................................................................................................110
12.1 Port Access and Active Users ....................................................................................................................................................................110
12.2 Statistics ........................................................................................................................................................................................................110
12.3 Support Reports ...........................................................................................................................................................................................111
12.4 Syslog ............................................................................................................................................................................................................112
12.5 Dashboard ....................................................................................................................................................................................................112
12.5.1 Configuring the Dashboard............................................................................................................................................................113
13. Management ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................115
13.1 Device Management...................................................................................................................................................................................115
13.2 Port and Host Logs......................................................................................................................................................................................115
13.3 Serial Port Terminal Connection................................................................................................................................................................116
13.4 Power Management ...................................................................................................................................................................................117
14. Configuration from the Command Line ..............................................................................................................................................................118
14.2 Serial Port Configuration ............................................................................................................................................................................120
14.3 Adding and Removing Users......................................................................................................................................................................122
14.4 Adding and Removing User Groups..........................................................................................................................................................124
14.5 Authentication..............................................................................................................................................................................................124
14.6 Network Hosts .............................................................................................................................................................................................125
14.7 Trusted Networks ........................................................................................................................................................................................126
14.8 Cascaded Ports............................................................................................................................................................................................127
14.9 UPS Connections .........................................................................................................................................................................................127
14.10 RPC Connections .......................................................................................................................................................................................128
14.11 Managed Devices......................................................................................................................................................................................129
14.12 Port Log.......................................................................................................................................................................................................129
14.13 Alerts ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................130
14.14 SMTP and SMS .........................................................................................................................................................................................131
14.15 SNMP ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................132
14.16 Administration ............................................................................................................................................................................................132
14.17 IP Settings...................................................................................................................................................................................................132
14.18 Date and Time Settings............................................................................................................................................................................133
14.19 DHCP Server ..............................................................................................................................................................................................134
14.20 Services .......................................................................................................................................................................................................134
14.21 NAGIOS .......................................................................................................................................................................................................135
15. Advanced Configuration .......................................................................................................................................................................................136
15.1 Custom Scripting..........................................................................................................................................................................................136
15.2 Advanced Portmanager ..............................................................................................................................................................................143
15.2.1 Portmanager Commands................................................................................................................................................................143
15.2.2 External Scripts and Alerts .............................................................................................................................................................144
15.3 Raw Access to Serial Ports.........................................................................................................................................................................145
15.3.1 Access to Serial Ports......................................................................................................................................................................145
15.4 IP Filtering .....................................................................................................................................................................................................145
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