Using ssh with cmc, Supported ssh cryptography schemes – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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If your management station is running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2003, you may experience an issue with the
characters in a CMC Telnet session. This issue may occur as a frozen login where the return key does not respond and
the password prompt does not appear.
To fix this issue, download hotfix 824810 from support.microsoft.com. You can also see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 824810 for more information.

Using SSH With CMC

SSH is a command line session that includes the same capabilities as a Telnet session, but with session negotiation and
encryption to improve security. The CMC supports SSH version 2 with password authentication. SSH is enabled on the
CMC by default.

NOTE: CMC does not support SSH version 1.

When an error occurs during the CMC login, the SSH client issues an error message. The message text is dependent on
the client and is not controlled by CMC. Review the RACLog messages to determine the cause of the failure.

NOTE: OpenSSH must be run from a VT100 or ANSI terminal emulator on Windows. You can also run OpenSSH
using Putty.exe. Running OpenSSH at the Windows command prompt does not provide full functionality (that is,
some keys do not respond and no graphics are displayed). For systems running Linux, run SSH client services to
connect to CMC with any shell.

Four simultaneous SSH sessions are supported at a time. The session timeout is controlled by the
cfgSsnMgtSshIdleTimeout property. For more information, see the database property chapter of the

RACADM

Command Line Reference Guide for iDRAC7 and CMC

, the Services Management page in the Web interface, or see

Configuring Services

CMC also supports Public Key Authentication (PKA) over SSH. This authentication method improves SSH scripting
automation by removing the need to embed or prompt for user ID/password. For more information, see

Configure Public

Key Authentication over SSH

SSH is enabled by default. If SSH is disabled, then you can enable it using any other supported interface.
To configure SSH, see

Configuring Services