Integrate UNIX and linux storage via Secure Shell
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Secure Shell (SSH) is an Internet protocol that lets you establish an encrypted data stream (including encrypted login) for a number of program types that are normally unencrypted ("cleartext"). This means that, using SSH, the forthcoming SPACEWatch v5.7.71 build can securely login to your remote UNIX or linux server and retrieve storage data in a secure manner.
SSH offers two popular login methods, both of which are supported by SPACEWatch:
2. a private key to keep on the computer that SPACEWatch is installed on (or accessible to it, e.g. on a file server).
SSH configuration options in the SPACEWatch v5.7.71
You don't need any additional software to use this new feature - just add your UNIX and linux hosts as scheduled tasks or directly through the SPACEWatch client interface and get going. All your familiar analyses and reports will work just they way you expect.
Note that there are some quirks however - but these are to do with how UNIX works, rather than any limitation in SPACEWatch. For example UNIX systems don't generally store a file creation date. Instead they have two last modified dates (one for data and one for file properties).
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Secure Shell (SSH) is an Internet protocol that lets you establish an encrypted data stream (including encrypted login) for a number of program types that are normally unencrypted ("cleartext"). This means that, using SSH, the forthcoming SPACEWatch v5.7.71 build can securely login to your remote UNIX or linux server and retrieve storage data in a secure manner.
SSH offers two popular login methods, both of which are supported by SPACEWatch:
- Username/password is the easiest to use; as the name implies, you just log in normally, with your regular UNIX or linux username and password. But since the link is encrypted, your password stays a secret.
- Public/private-key authentication is more secure, because your password is never sent over the link at all. (What's sent is an encrypted token using your private key, instead.) To use this method, you have to create two files:
2. a private key to keep on the computer that SPACEWatch is installed on (or accessible to it, e.g. on a file server).
SSH configuration options in the SPACEWatch v5.7.71
You don't need any additional software to use this new feature - just add your UNIX and linux hosts as scheduled tasks or directly through the SPACEWatch client interface and get going. All your familiar analyses and reports will work just they way you expect.
Note that there are some quirks however - but these are to do with how UNIX works, rather than any limitation in SPACEWatch. For example UNIX systems don't generally store a file creation date. Instead they have two last modified dates (one for data and one for file properties).
