Http administration, Telnet administration, Operations – American Power Conversion AmpMeter PDU User Manual

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3. Operations

HTTP Administration

NOTE: A restart is required after setting or changing ANY Telnet/Web configurations. See Performing a warm
boot
on page 28 for more info
rmation.

Enabling and disabling HTTP support

The Set HTTP command is used to enable or disable HTTP support.

To enable or disable HTTP support:

At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type

set http

, followed by

enabled

or

disabled

and press

Enter

.

Changing the HTTP server port

With HTTP support enabled, the HTTP server watches and responds to requests on the default HTTP port number 80.
This port number may be changed using the Set HTTP Port command.

To change the HTTP port:

At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type

set http port

, followed by the port number and press

Enter

.

Example

The following changes the HTTP port number to 2048:

AmpMeter PDU: set HTTP port 2048<Enter>

Setting the HTTP authentication method

The Set HTTP Security command is used to set the method of authentication. The AmpMeter PDU HTTP server
supports two authentication methods for security and validation of the username-password – Basic and MD5 digest.

For more information on authentication methods, see Setting the HTTP authentication method: on page 14.

To set the HTTP authentication method:

At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type

set http security

, followed by

basic

or

md5

and press

Enter

.

Telnet Administration

NOTE: A restart of the AmpMeter PDU is required after setting or changing ANY Telnet/Web configurations.
See Performing a warm boot on page 28 for more information.

Enabling and disabling Telnet support

The Set Telnet command is used to enable or disable Telnet support.

To enable or disable Telnet support:

At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type

set telnet

, followed by

enabled

or

disabled

and press

Enter

.

Changing the Telnet port

With Telnet support enabled, the Telnet server watches and responds to requests on the default Telnet port number 23.
This port number may be changed using the Set Telnet Port command.

To change the Telnet socket:

At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type

set telnet port

, followed by the port number and press

Enter

.

Example

The following changes the Telnet port number to 7001:

AmpMeter PDU: set telnet port 7001<Enter>

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