Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Manuale Supplementare

Logging Into the Switch

Using Secure Shell

OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 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, which acts as a Secure Shell client is an entry point to 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.