Secure Shell Application Overview - Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Manual

Using Secure Shell

Secure Shell Application Overview

Secure Shell is an access protocol used to establish secured access to your OmniSwitch. The Secure Shell
protocol can be used to manage an OmniSwitch directly or it can provide a secure mechanism for
managing network servers through the OmniSwitch.
The drawing below illustrates the Secure Shell being used as an access protocol replacing Telnet to
manage the OmniSwitch. Here, the user terminal is connected through the network to the switch.
Terminal
The drawing below shows a slightly different application. Here, a terminal connected to a single switch,
which acts as a Secure Shell client is an entry point to the network. In this scenario, the client portion of
the Secure Shell software is used on the connecting switch and the server portion of Secure Shell is used
on the switches or servers being managed.
Secure Shell
Access Protocol
Terminal
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Network
Secure Shell Used as an Access Protocol
OmniSwitch Secure
Shell Client
OmniSwitch as a Secure Shell Client
OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Switch Management Guide
Secure Shell
Secure Shell
Network
Logging Into the Switch
OmniSwitch
Secure Shell
Server
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