4.2.1

Procedure
1 Click the Workflows view in the Orchestrator client.
2 In the workflows hierarchical list, open Library > SSH to navigate to the Register vCO public key on host
workflow.
3 Right-click the Register vCO public key on host workflow and select Start workflow.
4 Provide the host and authentication information.
NOTE You must provide credentials that are registered on the SSH host.
5 Click Submit to run the workflow.
You can use public key authentication instead of password authentication when you connect to the SSH host
as the registered user.
Run an SSH Command
You can run a workflow from the Orchestrator client to run SSH commands on a remote ESX host.
Prerequisites
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The SSH plug-in must be enabled and configured in the Orchestrator configuration interface.
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You must be logged in to the Orchestrator client as a user who can run SSH workflows.
Procedure
1 Click the Workflows view in the Orchestrator client.
2 In the workflows hierarchical list, open Library > SSH to navigate to the Run SSH command workflow.
3 Right-click the Run SSH command workflow and select Start workflow.
4 Provide the required information.
a Type an SSH host name or IP.
b Type an SSH command to run.
NOTE The default SSH command is uptime. It shows how long the server has been active and the
user load for that period.
c (Optional) Select Yes to use password authentication.
NOTE The default option is to use key file authentication.
d Type the authentication information.
5 Click Submit to run the workflow.
Copy a File from an SSH Host
You can run a workflow from the Orchestrator client to copy files from an SSH host to the Orchestrator server.
The SSH plug-in uses the Java JCraft library, which implements SFTP. The SCP get command workflow
transfers files by using SFTP.
Prerequisites
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The SSH plug-in must be enabled and configured in the Orchestrator configuration interface.
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You must be logged in to the Orchestrator client as a user who can run SSH workflows.
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