Secure Shell (SSH) in HP SIM

GUI
—
graphical us
er interface. For example, the w
eb
-
based portal interface to HP SIM.
h
ost key
—
T
he public key that proves the identity of a particular host.
IETF
—
Internet Engineering Task Force. From the IETF Web page: “The Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) is a large
,
open international community
of network designers, operators, vendors, and
researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the
Internet.”
m
anaged system
—
A
ny system on the network being managed by HP SIM, including the CMS itself.
m
ou
nt point
—
M
aps a physical file system name to a logical name, which can then be used for
convenience.
MSA tool
—
M
ulti
-
system aware tool. This tool
is
issued
on a certain system called the execution
system, and then performs tasks against the target syste
ms. Target systems are provided to the tool by
an environment variable.
OpenBSD
—
A
free, Berkeley Software Division (BSD) 4.4
–
based UNIX
-
like operating system. The
BSD
implementation of the SSH protocol is OpenSSH.
OpenSSH
—
A
free version of the SSH prot
ocol suite, implemented and supported by the OpenBSD
project.
p
rivate key
—
T
he private half of a public and private key pair. The private key is stored in and
owner read
-
only file (for example, only the owner can view it) on a particular system. The priva
te key
is never transmitted to another system.
p
ublic key
—
T
he public half of a public and private key pair. The public key can be freely distributed
without fear that it can be used to impersonate the user. It can only be used for authentication in
conju
nction with a private key.
r
emote task
—
A
task initiated on the CMS, and
issued
on a managed system.
RSA
—
Rivest
-
Shamir
-
Adleman. A public key algorithm used by SSH.
SFTP
—
Secure File Transfer Protocol. It is the part of the SSH protocol used to transfer
files between
systems. This protocol is performed with the same server as command execution.
SSA Tool
—
single
-
system aware tool. This type of tool is
issued
by way of SSH on the target system.
SSH
—
Secure Shell. An IETF recommendation. There are two prot
ocols: the original SSH version 1
protocol (SSH
-
1) and the current SSH version 2 (SSH
-
2.) Whenever SSH is mentioned in this
document, it refers to the SSH
-
2 protocol.
SSH client
—
C
onnects to SSH servers to perform remote task execution and file copy.
SSH s
erver
—
L
istens for and services requests coming in on the proper TCP/IP port, usually port 22.
t
arget system
—
T
he system selected for a tool to run on.
TDEF
—
tool definition file. It defines parameters of a tool, its execution user, toolbox, and so on i
n
XML format.