Secure Shell (SSH) in HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 and 5.2

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Category
Tool Name
Description
System
Administration
View SAM Log
Start the HP
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UX SAM Log Viewer X application.
Appendix C: Glossary
API
—
application programming interface. An interface p
rovided for programs to execute services
provided by a piece of software, versus a human executing those services by way of the command
line or a GUI.
CMS
—
central management server. The system on which HP Systems Insight Manager is installed.
Cygwin
—
a
UNIX compatibility layer that is used to port some UNIX utilities to Windows.
DSA
—
digital signature algorithm. A public key algorithm used by SSH.
GUI
—
graphical user interface. For example, the Web
-
based portal interface to HP SIM.
Host key
—
the publi
c 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
researche
rs concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the
Internet.”
Managed system
—
any system on the network being managed by HP SIM, including the CMS itself.
Mount point
—
maps a physical file system name to a logica
l name, which can then be used for
convenience.
MSA tool
—
multi
-
system aware tool. This is a tool that executed on a certain system called the
execution system, and then performs tasks against the target systems. 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. Their
implementation of the SSH protocol is OpenSSH.
OpenSSH
—
a free version of the SSH protocol suite, implemented and supported by the Ope
nBSD
project.
Private key
—
the 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 private key is
never transmitted to another system.
P
ublic key
—
the 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
conjunction with a private key.
Remote task
—
a task
initiated on the CMS, and executed 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 perfo
rmed with the same server as command execution.
SSA Tool
—
single
-
system aware tool. This type of tool is executed by way of SSH on the target system.
SSH
—
Secure Shell. An IETF recommendation. There are two protocols: 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
—
connects to SSH servers to perform remote task execution and file copy.
SSH server
—
listens for and services requests co
ming in on the proper TCP/IP port, usually port 22.
Target system
—
the 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 in
XML format.