Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions omniswitch User Manual

Logging Into the Switch

Using Secure Shell

OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide

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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 terminal connected to a single 
OmniSwitch acting as a Secure Shell client 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.