Using the Telnet Management Connection

After you have installed the Telnet extension and configured a telnet listener, you can use the Telnet Management Connection. In this section, Microsoft's default Telnet client is used as an example.

Once you start the Telnet client, the following Telnet logon screen is displayed.

Provided that the connection meets the selected security criteria (whitelist SSL) you are prompted for a user ID and password. These must be configured in the iWay Management Console, and may have administrative capabilities or not. Lack of administrative capability means that commands that reconfigure the server, such as start, stop and reinit are not available.

Once the logon is accepted, you are presented with a standard information screen.

At the command line, you can use any authorized command. The help command lists these commands.

These are the same commands that can be issued from the standard shell console, plus the showlog and hidelog commands to enable or disable tracing for this telnet session.

For example, if you enter the memory command, the following screen is displayed.