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Product communication protocols
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NETCONF The Network Configuration Protocol
(NETCONF), is an IETF network management
protocol. NETCONF provides mechanisms to
install, manipulate, and delete the
configuration of network devices. Its
operations are realized on top of a simple
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) layer. The
NETCONF protocol uses an Extensible
Markup Language (XML) based data
encoding for the configuration data as well
as the protocol messages. The protocol
messages are exchanged on top of a secure
transport protocol.. Used to discover all the information on VDX
including Device, Ports, Zoning details and
so on.
Also used for configuring various parameters
to VDX devices. Network OS
HTTP/HTTPS The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an
application protocol for distributed,
collaborative, hypermedia information
systems. HTTP is the foundation of data
communication for the World Wide Web.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
is a communications protocol for secure
communication over a computer network,
with especially wide deployment on the
Internet. Technically, it is not a protocol in
and of itself; rather, it is the result of simply
layering the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) on top of the SSL/TLS protocol, thus
adding the security capabilities of SSL/TLS
to standard HTTP communications.
Used to collect all information required to
manage Fabric OS devices.
Used to launch web element manager for
IronWare devices.
You can configure the HTTP/HTTPS protocol
from the Options dialog box (refer to
“Product communication settings” on
page 176).
Fabric OS
IronWare
SSH/Telnet Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic
network protocol for secure data
communication, remote command-line login,
remote command execution, and other
secure network services between two
networked computers that connects, via a
secure channel over an insecure network, a
server and a client.
Telnet is a network protocol used on the
Internet or local area networks to provide a
bidirectional interactive text-oriented
communication facility using a virtual
terminal connection. User data is
interspersed in-band with Telnet control
information in an 8-bit byte oriented data
connection over the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP). Used to send configurations to IronWare
devices.
For Network OS and IronWare products, used
to deploy CLI templates created through the
CLI Configuration Manager.
You can configure this protocol on the
Options dialog box (refer to
“Configuring IP
communication” on page 178.
IronWare
Network OS
FTP File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard
network protocol used to transfer files from
one host to another host over a TCP-based
network Used for firmware download.
For Fabric OS and Network OS devices, used
to collect technical support information.
For Network OS devices, used for
configuration management (backup and
restore).
For more information, refer to
“FTP/SCP/SFTP server settings” on
page 179.
Fabric OS
Network OS
TABLE 18 Product communication protocols
Protocol Description Management application use Communicates with device type