Owner's Manual

88 Security
- Privacy Key — Enter the privacy key. The application uses this to generate a secret key. Specifying
MD5 requires the privacy key to be 16 characters long while SHA requires the privacy key to
be 20 characters long.
CAUTION:
OpenManage Network Manager does note support the same user ID with different authentication
schemes in the same deployment. If you need to deploy a portion of the network with SHA and another
with MD5 you must use different user IDs.
Confirm your entries here with File -> Save or by clicking on the Save button or icon.
Telnet / SSH
You can use Telnet / SSH authentication objects for either SSH (default: port 22) or Telnet
(default: port 23) logins. Select which type of login by selecting the port when you use them in the
Resource Discovery Wizard.
Figure 4-15. General (Telnet / SSH) Page
The following are the authentication object fields for Telnet/SSH (ASCII) logins. For additional
SSH information, refer to SSH Strict Host Key Checking on page 91.
General Parameters
- ID —The Telnet or SSH authentication object name.
-
Use for EMS —Checking this lets this application—the entire element management system
(EMS)—use this authentication. Otherwise, authentications are only available to individual
users who have permissions to use them.
If none of the associated credentials are marked
Use for EMS then the software chooses the
set of authentications to which the current user has access. Administrators typically use this