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Introduction

This introduction covers the following topics:
What is in this guide
What you should know
Related publications
Documentation conventions

What is in this guide

This guide describes how to manage the MAX TNT and troubleshoot its operations. It assumes that you have set up the MAX TNT system as described in the MAX TNT Hardware Installation Guide and configured it for network connectivity as described in the MAX TNT Network Guide.

Each chapter in the guide focuses on a particular aspect of MAX TNT administration and operations. The chapters describe tools for system management, network management, and SNMP management.

Although some of the sections in this manual deal with security issues, the MAX TNT Network Guide provides a more comprehensive approach to such topics as securing the unit, using firewalls, and understanding the more complex authentication procedures (such as the use of dynamic passwords).

To perform many of the tasks in this manual, you must have administrative permission on the MAX TNT. For instructions on logging into the MAX TNT with administrative permissions, see Logging into the MAX TNT.

What you should know

While this guide attempts to provide a conceptual framework that will sufficiently enable an administrator who is not an expert in a particular network technology to operate and troubleshoot the unit, it does not start from the beginning with any network management topic. Following are the general areas in which it is helpful to have some existing knowledge when working with the related capability in the MAX TNT:

Related publications

Additional information is available in the other guides in the MAX TNT documentation set. If you need more background information than these guides provide, many external references are readily available on the Web or in technical bookstores. You'll find a partial list of such references below.

MAX TNT documentation set

The MAX TNT documentation set consists of the following manuals:

Related RFCs

 RFCs are available on the Web at http://ds.internic.net.

Information about PPP connections

For information about PPP connections and authentication, you might want to download one or more of the following:

Information about IP routers

 RFCs that describe the operation of IP routers include:

Information about OSPF routing

 For information about OSPF routing, see:

Information about multicast

 For information about multicast, see:

Information about firewalls and packet filtering

 RFCs that describe firewalls and packet filters include:

Information about general network security

 RFCs pertinent to network security include:

Information about external authentication

 For information about RADIUS and TACACS authentication, see:

ITU-T recommendations

 ITU-T recommendations (formerly CCITT) are available commercially. You can order them at http://www.itu.ch/publications/.

Related books

The following books are available in technical bookstores.

Documentation conventions

Table 1-1 shows the documentation conventions used in this guide.

Table 1-1. Documentation conventions

Convention

Meaning
Monospace text

 Represents text that appears on your computer's screen, or that could appear on your computer's screen.

Boldface monospace text

 Represents characters that you enter exactly as shown (unless the characters are also in italics-see Italics, below). If you could enter the characters, but are not specifically instructed to, they do not appear in boldface.

Italics

 Represent variable information. Do not enter the words themselves in the command. Enter the information they represent. In ordinary text, italics are used for titles of publications, for some terms that would otherwise be in quotation marks, and to show emphasis.

[ ]

 Square brackets indicate an optional argument you might add to a command. To include such an argument, type only the information inside the brackets. Do not type the brackets unless they appear in bold type.

|

 Separates command choices that are mutually exclusive.

>

 Points to the next level in the path to a parameter. The parameter that follows the angle bracket is one of the options that appears when you select the parameter that precedes the angle bracket.

Key1-Key2

 Represents a combination keystroke. To enter a combination keystroke, press the first key and hold it down while you press one or more other keys. Release all the keys at the same time. (For example, Ctrl-H means hold down the Control key and press the H key.)

Press Enter

 Means press the Enter, or Return, key or its equivalent on your computer.

Note:

 Introduces important additional information.

Caution:

 Warns that a failure to follow the recommended procedure could result in loss of data or damage to equipment.

Warning:

 Warns that a failure to take appropriate safety precautions could result in physical injury.


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