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13.4 Power Management .................................................................................................................................... 242
14. Configuration from the Command Line .................................................................................................................... 243
14.1 Accessing config from the command line .................................................................................................... 243
14.2 Serial Port configuration ..............................................................................................................................246
14.3 Adding and removing Users ........................................................................................................................ 249
14.4 Adding and removing User Groups ............................................................................................................. 250
14.5 Authentication ............................................................................................................................................. 251
14.6 Network Hosts ............................................................................................................................................ 251
14.7 Trusted Networks ........................................................................................................................................ 253
14.8 Cascaded Ports ............................................................................................................................................ 253
14.9 UPS connections ..........................................................................................................................................254
14.10 RPC connections .......................................................................................................................................... 255
14.11 Environmental .............................................................................................................................................. 256
14.12 Managed Devices ........................................................................................................................................ 257
14.13 Port Log ....................................................................................................................................................... 257
14.14 Alerts ........................................................................................................................................................... 258
14.15 SMTP & SMS ............................................................................................................................................... 260
14.16 SNMP .......................................................................................................................................................... 261
14.17 Administration ............................................................................................................................................. 261
14.18 IP settings .................................................................................................................................................... 261
14.19 Date and Time settings ................................................................................................................................ 262
14.20 Dial-in settings ............................................................................................................................................. 263
14.21 DHCP server ................................................................................................................................................ 263
14.22 Services ........................................................................................................................................................264
14.23 NAGIOS ....................................................................................................................................................... 265
15. Advanced Configuration ............................................................................................................................................ 266
15.1 Custom Scripting ............................................................................................................................................... 266
15.1.1 Custom script to run when booting ......................................................................................................266
15.1.2 Running custom scripts when alerts are triggered ................................................................................ 267
15.1.3 Example script - Power Cycling on Pattern Match .................................................................................268
15.1.4 Example script - Multiple email notifications on each alert ................................................................... 268
15.1.5 Deleting Configuration Values from the CLI .........................................................................................268
15.1.6 Power Cycle any device when a ping request fails ................................................................................ 271
15.1.7 Running custom scripts when a configurator is invoked ....................................................................... 272
15.1.8 Backing-up the configuration and restoring using a local USB stick ..................................................... 273
15.1.9 Backing-up the configuration off-box ................................................................................................... 274
15.2 Advanced Portmanager ..................................................................................................................................... 275
15.2.1 Portmanager commands ....................................................................................................................... 275
15.2.2 External Scripts and Alerts .................................................................................................................... 276
15.3 Raw access to Serial Ports ................................................................................................................................. 277
15.3.1 Access to serial ports ............................................................................................................................ 277
15.3.2 Accessing the console/modem port ..................................................................................................... 277
15.4 IP Filtering .......................................................................................................................................................... 278
15.5 SNMP Status Reporting ..................................................................................................................................... 279
15.5.1 Retrieving Status Information Using SNMP ........................................................................................... 279
15.5.2 Check Firewall Rules ............................................................................................................................. 280
15.5.3 Enable SNMP Service ............................................................................................................................280
15.6 Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key Authentication ....................................................................................................285
15.6.1 SSH Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 285
15.6.2 Generating Public Keys (Linux) .............................................................................................................. 285