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Chapter 23: Tracing Problems - Connecting to Vdex
using PuTTY (SSH)
Experienced users may wish to access the command line interface of the Vdex using
SSH. Any preferred SSH client may be used – for Windows users, we recommend
PuTTY. PuTTY is a free, compact SSH client that may be downloaded from the following
location:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Once PuTTY has been downloaded, it can be run by double clicking putty.exe. To
connect to the Vdex server, set the host name to the IP address assigned to the Vdex
system. If you wish, you can enter a name into Saved Sessions (such as “Vdex”) and
click Save so that PuTTY remembers the IP address for future use. Click Open to
connect to the Vdex system.
Figure 27
Once connected, you’ll be prompted for a login user and password. Enter
root
as the
login user, and your Vdex administrator password assigned when using the wizard.
Note: If you wish to enable external access to SSH on the Vdex from the Internet, you
must first
forward port 22
to the Vdex IP address in your router.
