User`s guide

Virtual Appliance

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) User’s Guide v1.40 P-164000289—Rev 2 137

With a Standard Console, you will see the following screen (see Figure 147).

Figure 147. Standard Console

With SSH Client use the following credentials:

Password: eaton

NOTE To enable the first remote access, the root access is enabled for the SSH daemon.

For security issues, you can disallow the connection of the root user in “/etc/ssh/

sshd_config” and set “PermitRootLogin” to no.

Setting Security for a Virtual Appliance

To minimize security issue, Eaton has installed and pre-configured the firewall.

Basic Firewall Configuration

The firewall is pre-configured to drop all connection except SSH and Eaton web and devices connection.

You can only connect on the virtual appliance through

Eaton Web Page or SSH connection. For example, the

Virtual Appliance doesn't respond to “Ping” (an ICMP response is not allowed).

Advanced Firewall Configuration

If you want to customize the firewall configuration, you need to have:

Knowledge of Iptables

Credentials to connect on the Virtual Appliance

SSH Client