Logging Into the Switch
Using Secure Shell
OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide
April 2006
page 1-9
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.
The drawing below shows a slightly different application. Here, a single OmniSwitch to which a terminal
is connected acts as a Secure Shell client and also as an entry point into the network. In this scenario, the
client portion of the Secure Shell software is used on the connecting OmniSwitch and the server portion of
Secure Shell is used on the switches or servers being managed.
Secure Shell Authentication
Secure Shell authentication is accomplished in several phases using industry standard algorithms and
exchange mechanisms. The authentication phase is identical for Secure Shell and Secure Shell SFTP. The
following sections describe the process in detail.
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OmniSwitch
Network
Secure Shell
Secure Shell Used as an Access Protocol
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OmniSwitch as a Secure Shell Client
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Secure Shell
Access Protocol
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Shell Client
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