APC Battery Management System - Manual (Page 121)

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USER’S GUIDE
Battery Management System
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Authentication
Authentication versus encryption
You can choose to use security features for the Battery Management
System that control access by providing basic authentication through user
names, passwords, and IP addresses, without using encryption. These
basic security features are sufficient for most environments in which
sensitive data are not being transferred.
To ensure that data and communication between the Battery Management
System and the client interfaces, such as the control console and the Web
interface, cannot be intercepted, you can provide a greater level of security
by using one or more of the following encryption-based methods:
• For the Web interface, use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
• To encrypt user names and passwords for control console access, use
the Secure SHell (SSH) protocol.
• To encrypt user names, passwords, and data for the secure transfer of
files, use the Secure CoPy (SCP) protocol.
For more information on these protocols for encryption-
based security, see
Secure SHell (SSH) and Secure CoPy
(SCP) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) .