Configuring Alien Access
The adeptness to administer a Cisco PIX accidentally is one of the blessings of remote
management.You can consistently administer the PIX application the animate port, but this
requires you to be physically present at the PIX with a animate connection.This
solution is not actual applied in today’s action networks. Fortunately, we have
the advantage of application some blazon of alien admission to administer the PIX.The accoutrement we
can use to accidentally administer the PIX are Telnet, SSH, SNMP, or Cisco PDM.All
these alien administration methods accept their abode in the ample account of system
management, but some fit bigger in assertive situations than others.The ambition of this
section is to explain the assorted methods of alien administration and appearance you
the differences amid them so you can accomplish an accomplished acumen about
which adjustment to use in your specific situation.
NOTE
Terminal servers can accredit alien admission to the PIX firewall through the
console port.
Two styles of alien admission are available.The aboriginal and best frequently used
is the command-line interface, or CLI.The CLI provides a actual fast and lowoverhead
method of management. It additionally provides the adeptness to “cut and paste”
configurations.The downside is that you charge to apperceive the commands and their
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structures. Cisco PDM provides a added affable adjustment of managing the PIX
remotely by accouterment a Windows-like GUI interface.You aloof point and click
your way to configuring and ecology the PIX firewall.The tradeoff is that
PDM has a college aerial claim than the basal CLI. If you accept a fat network
pipe, such as a LAN connection, PDM makes acceptable sense, but over a slow
dialup connection, the lower aerial of the CLI makes it the adopted method
of management.The CLI is accidentally attainable through Secure Shell and Telnet.