Accessing Admin CLI

Skill level: Beginner

Goal

To show how to access Admin CLI using Terminal on Unit or SSH.

Setup

For Terminal on Unit, you will need either:

a) Direct SSH access to the ACL device

b) Access to the management portal, and an cellular extender online and syncing with the management portal.  If you see the cellular extender listed as up (green status) in the management portal, you are good to go.

For more information on how to access Terminal on Unit or SSH, please see the below link.

Remote_Access

Details

The management portal utilizes the IPSec tunnel the cellular extender establishes to ipsec.accns.com (or remote.accns.com) to provide terminal access to the console of the device.

For details on the monthly data usage for this access, refer to the following article:

Data Usage Estimates

If a new configuration is applied to an Accelerated cellular extender, reboot the Accelerated cellular device so it rebuilds the IPSec tunnel and reports the new IPSec local IP address to the management portal.  You can verify that the management portal is using the IPSec local IP as the management IP by looking at the Uplink IP address on the Device Details tab.  This value should be set to a 192.x.x.x IP address (when using ipsec.accns.com or 172.x.x.x for remote.accns.com).

  1. Once the correct management IP is reported from the cellular extender to the management portal, clicking Terminal on Unit will open a page on the management portal to provide the user access to the console of the 63xx-series device.
  2. Type in the User and Password for the device and hit enter.
  3. At the prompt, type a for Admin CLI and hit enter. (If typing in the user and password brings you directly to the # prompt, you are already in the Admin CLI.)
  4. At the # prompt, hit tab and the possible commands will be presented. The same is true for typing one of the commands followed by a space then hitting tab. This will show the available options within that command. (See command break down below)

Direct SSH access

SSH access can be gained through a local connection to the ACL device.  You can access the cellular extender on its LAN IP address (default 192.168.2.1) or its default 192.168.210.1 IP address.  Below is an example SSH login process.

  1. SSH to the ACL device at its LAN IP address (default 192.168.2.1) or its default 192.168.210.1 IP address.
  2. Type in the User and Password for the device and hit enter.
  3. At the prompt, type a for Admin CLI and hit enter. (If typing in the user and password brings you directly to the # prompt, you are already in the Admin CLI.)
  4. At the # prompt, hit tab and the possible commands will be presented. The same is true for typing one of the commands followed by a space then hitting tab. This will show the available options within that command. (See command break down below)
$ ssh [email protected]
$ password
Access selection menu:         
                               
    a: Admin CLI               
    s: Shell                   
    q: Quit                    
                                
Select access or quit [admin] : a

Connecting now, 'exit' to disconnect from Admin CLI ...

#

Command Breakdown

  1. atcmd - run AT commands to cellular modem in the device
  2. config - make config changes on the device, one at a time
  3. exit - exit from the Admin CLI console
  4. ping - ping an IP address or domain (Ctrl+c to stop)
  5. reboot - reboot the device
  6. show - display network or device version details
  7. traceroute - perform traceroute to an IP address or domain