Tripp Lite B098016V Owners Manual for B093- B097- and B098-Series Console Serv - Page 23

3. System Configuration 3.5 Communications Software You have configured access protocols for the Administrator client to use when connecting to the console server. User clients (who you may set up later) will also use these protocols when accessing console server serial attached devices and network attached hosts. Therefore, you will need to have appropriate communications software tools set up on the Administrator (and User) client's computer. Tripp Lite provides the SDT Connector as the recommended client software tool. However, other generic tools such as PuTTY and SSHTerm may be used. 3.5.1 SDT Connector SDT Connector is a lightweight tool that enables Users and Administrators to securely access the Console server and the various computers, network devices and devices that may be serially- or network- connected to the console server. SDT Connector is a Java client program that couples the trusted SSH tunneling protocol with popular access tools such as telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, VNC, RDP to provide point-and-click secure remote management access to all systems and devices being managed. Information on using SDT Connector for browser access to the console server's management console, telnet/SSH access to the console server command line, and TCP/UDP connecting to hosts that are network-connected to the console server can be found in section 6. Secure Tunneling. SDT Connector can be installed on Windows PCs, Mac OS and on most Linux, UNIX and Solaris systems. 23