Configuring Management Port on ACOS

Standard Thunder configurations select a specific network interface to act as the Management port.  Management ports provide a set of services including:

• SSH access for command line management (including public key authentication)
• SMTP for email alerts
• Web GUI access
• SNMP and other management protocols
• Software upgrades

This management interface cannot be used to route traffic.
The management interface must also reside on a unique IP subnet.  If attempting to configure an interface with the same IP subnet, the following error message will be displayed:
“IP Address already configured on an Interface”
If network architectures require sharing an IP subnet with both Management and network traffic ports, then a standard interface can be configured to support Management functions.

Example ACOS commands to enable the Management port

enable-management service ssh
  ethernet 3
!
enable-management service http
  ethernet 3
!
enable-management service https
  ethernet 3

The above commands enable access to the A10 Thunder system with an SSH session and via a web browser.
A complete list of services available for management are:

enable-management service ?
  acl-v4  IPv4 ACL service
  acl-v6  IPv6 ACL service
  http    HTTP service
  https   HTTPS service
  ping    Ping service
  snmp    SNMP service
  ssh     SSH service
  telnet  Telnet service

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July 9, 2018