APC Battery Management System - Manual (Page 119)

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USER’S GUIDE
Battery Management System
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Web Server.
Changing default user names and passwords
immediately
As soon as you complete the installation and initial configuration of the
Battery Management System, immediately change the default user names
and passwords. Configuring unique user names and passwords is essential
to establish basic security for your system.
Port assignments
If a Telnet, FTP, SSH/SCP, or Web/SSL server uses a non-standard port, a
user must specify the port when using the client interface, such as a Web
browser. The non-standard port address becomes an extra “password,”
hiding the server to provide an additional level of security. The TCP ports for
which these servers listen are initially set at the standard “well known ports”
for the protocols. To hide the interfaces, use any port numbers from 5000 to
32768.
Security Access Description
Available methods:
• User name and password
• Selectable server port
• Server Enable/Disable
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) In basic HTTP authentication mode, the user name and
password are transmitted base-64 encoded (with no
encryption).
SSL are available on Web browsers supported for the
Battery Management System and on most Web
servers. The Web protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol
over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) encrypts and
decrypts page requests to the Web server and pages
returned by the Web server to the user.