Black Box 1102, Secure Device Servers, 1101 manual PuTTY, SSHTerm

Chapter 4: System Configuration

4.5.2 PuTTY

You can also use communications packages like PuTTY to connect to the console server command line (and to connect serially attached devices as covered in Chapter 5). PuTTY is a freeware implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and UNIX platforms. It runs as an executable application without needing to be installed onto your system. PuTTY (the Telnet and SSH client itself) can be downloaded from http://www.tucows.com/preview/195286.html

To use PuTTY for an SSH terminal session from a Windows client, enter the console server’s IP address as the ”Host Name (or IP address).”

To access the console server command line, select “SSH” as the protocol, and use the default IP Port 22.

Click “Open” and the console server login prompt will appear. (You may also receive a “Security Alert” that the host’s key is not cached. Choose “yes” to continue.)

Using the Telnet protocol is similarly simple, but you use the default port 23.

Figure 4-8. PuTTY screen.

4.5.3 SSHTerm

Another popular communications package you can use is SSHTerm, an open source package that you can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshtools

To use SSHTerm for an SSH terminal session from a Windows Client, simply Select the “File” option and click on “New Connection.”

A new dialog box will appear for your “Connection Profile.” Type in the host name or IP address (for the console server unit) and the TCP port that the SSH session will use (port 22). Then type in your username, choose password authentication, and click connect.

You may receive a message about the host key fingerprint. Select “yes” or “always” to continue.

The next step is password authentication. The system prompts you for your username and password from the remote system. This logs you on to the console server

Figure 4-9. Connection Profile screen.

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