Avaya C360 Manager, Installation And Configuration Manual

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SCP Protocol Support
Issue 2 July 2005 105
SCP Protocol Support
In addition to data transfer via an SSH session, the SSH protocol is also used to support SCP
for secure file transfer. When using SCP, the C360 is the client, and an SCP server must be
installed on the management station. After defining users on the SCP server, the device acts as
an SCP client.
The procedure described in the Introduction to SSH on page 68 is used with the roles of the
C360 and the client computer reversed.
To accomplish secured transfers, a C360 launches a local SSH client via the CLI in order to
establish a secured channel to the secured file server. The C360 authenticates itself to the
server by providing a user name and password. With a Windows-based SSH server
(WinSSHD), the user name provided must be a defined user on the Windows machine with
read/write privileges. The files transferred via SCP are saved in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\username" directory.
The network element performs file transfer in unattended mode.
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SECURITY ALERT:
SECURITY ALERT:
The C360 doesn't block SCP traffic from users not on the allowed managers list,
because it is the SSH client. In addition, the C360 doesn't prompt the user to
accept the Server’s fingerprint nor warn the user if the fingerprint from an IP
address has changed.
For information on SCP file transfer commands, refer to Uploading and Downloading Device
Configurations and Images on page 101.