Motorola 68P02958C00-B - Manual (Page 262)

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IP Gateway Telnet Application
General
The Telnet protocol is a standard protocol that provides virtual terminal communication,
passing data from a remote Telnet host to the IP Gateway Telnet application.
In NFM systems, the IP Gateway Telnet application allows authorized users to access any
communication devices that support an interactive interface.
Authorized users can establish connections with the IP Gateway from a Telnet window from
any workstation (PC, UNIX, etc.) by using the IP Gateway Telnet Shell (user interface), to
establish interactive session(s) with end devices.
The following figure shows the data passing from the Telnet hosts to the end devices.
Telnet User Interface
The IP Gateway Telnet Shell provides the following functionality:
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Telnet application administration - including password handling, adding and deleting new
users, displaying a list of users and active sessions, etc.
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Listing the sites and network elements in the system.
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Performing terminal emulation to a network element device.
The IP Gateway Telnet interface supports multiple window sessions simultaneously, thus
allowing parallel connection to the IP Gateway from different computers by different users.
The IP Gateway Telnet Shell is case sensitive.
The IP Gateway is organized hierarchically; zones contains sites which contain devices.
Connecting to the IP Gateway
To connect to the IP Gateway, perform the following steps on your host computer:
Type: telnet <IP Gateway IP Address>
At the Login prompt, enter your <login name>.
At the Password prompt, enter your <password>.
At the first startup, the only valid login name is root (generally the name of the superuser or
system administrator.) The password for the superuser for the first startup is the existing
MDLC password of the IP Gateway.
Upon entering the IP Gateway shell, the prompt becomes Gateway_Name> .