Wireless/Redundant Edge Services xl Module Management and Configuration Guide WS.02.xx and greater

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Configuring the ProCurve Wireless Edge Services xl Module
Management Interfaces
Security
In addition to supporting the latest security standards for wireless communi-
cations, the Wireless Edge Services xl Module allows you to secure manage-
ment access. To protect communications between the Wireless Edge Services
xl Module and your management workstation, the module supports Secure
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) over Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and
SNMP v3. Management users and their related passwords are also controlled
through SNMP v3. You can also use SSH to access the module CLI indirectly.
SSH Access
If you want to access the Wireless Edge Services xl Module CLI from a remote
location, consider using SSH to access the wireless services-enabled switch CLI,
and through the switch CLI, the module’s. Although you can use Telnet to access
the switch CLI (and through it the module CLI), Telnet is not secure from
eavesdropping. The SSH protocol, on the other hand, generates public keys to
encrypt all the data exchanged between the module and your management
workstation. Further, SSH ensures that data traveling over the network arrives
unaltered.
HTTPS Access
By default, the Wireless Edge Services xl Module supports both HTTP and
HTTPS. When you use HTTPS to access the module’s Web browser interface,
the connection between your management workstation and the Wireless Edge
Services xl Module is secure. Communications between your workstation and
the module are encrypted.
Note You cannot modify the port numbers for HTTP and HTTPS.
SNMP Support
The Wireless Edge Services xl Module supports SNMP v1/v2c, allowing SNMP
servers that know the correct community names either complete read-write
or read-only access to the module.
The module also supports SNMP v3, a more secure—and flexible—way of
controlling the users and SNMP servers allowed management privileges to the
Wireless Edge Services xl Module.