Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

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Configuring the SSH Adapter

Overview

The SSH Adapter provides the ability to execute secure shell scripts and commands.

The SSH Adapter is installed as part of the CWA. However, you must perform the following steps to license and configure 
the SSH adapter before you can run SSH jobs:



 – License the SSH adapter. You cannot define a SSH connection until you have applied the SSH 

license from Cisco.

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 – Define a SSH Authentication user to authorize a connection to be established to the SSH 

agent and permit requests to be made on behalf of the authenticated account.

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 – Define a SSH connection so the master can communicate with the SSH server.

See 

 for information about general and adapter-specific properties that can be set to control 

things like logging and connection properties. 

Licensing an Adapter

Each CWA Adapter must be separately licensed. You cannot use an Adapter until you apply the license file. If you 
purchase the Adapter after the original installation of CWA, you will receive a new license file authorizing the use of the 
Adapter. 

You might have a Demo license which is good for 30 days, or you might have a Permanent license. The procedures to 
install these license files are described below.

Stop the master:

Windows:

Click 

on Start

 and select All 

.

Verify that the master is displayed in the 

 list and click on the 

 button to stop the master.

UNIX:

Enter 

Create the license file:

For a Permanent license, rename your Permanent license file to master.lic.