Moxa Technologies NPort 5400 Series - Manual (Page 64)

NPort 5400 Series User’s Manual Configuring NPort Administrator
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Password Protection
The NPort 5400 can be password-protected to prevent unauthorized configuration changes.
The six possible protection states are described below. Note that the term “Fixed’ is borrowed
from the standard fixed IP address networking terminology.
When using Broadcast Search to obtain a list of NPort device servers on the network, each
device server will show a status of either Lock, Unlock or Blank.
Lock
The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Broadcast Search” was used to locate it, and the
password has not yet been entered from within the current Administrator session.
Unlock
The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Broadcast Search” was used to locate it, and the
password has been entered from within the current Administrator session. Henceforth during
this Administrator session, activating various utilities for this NPort 5400 will not require
re-entering the server password.
Blank
The NPort 5400 is not password protected, and “Broadcast Search” was used to locate it.
Fixed
The NPort 5400 is not password protected, and “Search by IP address” was used to locate it.
Lock Fixed
The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Specify by IP address” was used to locate it, and the
password has not yet been entered from within the current Administrator session.
Unlock Fixed
The NPort 5400 is password protected, “Specify by IP address” was used to locate it, and the
password has been entered from within the current Administrator session. Henceforth during
this Administrator session, activating various utilities for this NPort 5400 will not require
re-entering the server password.
Unlock Password Protection
If the NPort 5400 is password protected, as indicated by a status of “Lock”, you will receive the
following error when you attempt to modify the configuration. You will not be able to use the
right click method to open the configuration page.
In this case, proceed as follows to “Unlock” the device server.