The ECLI proxy manager is started and terminated as part of the FOXMAN-UN core process package. The ECLIP frontend starts up a Telnet TCP server listening on the port 2600. The maximal number of ECLI proxy sessions is restricted to 100 OSS clients. This can be changed at startup by setting the “nbi_eclip_max_number_of_sessions” in $NEM_HOME/etc/nbcli.conf file.

The ECLIP frontend opens a Database session to check if a certain NE is in the domain access of the OSS client.

When OSS client starts a session, the client needs to authenticate itself. To this purpose the FOXMAN-UN user name and password are queried interactively. If the authentication succeeds, the OSS client gains access to FOX61x NEs that are part of his access domain. After three unsuccessful attempts the client session is terminated.

When the ECLIP is shut down, all open backend sessions will be closed and the connections to the FOX61x will be disconnected.