HP Network Direr Software Products manual Integrating AN SSH Client

H INTEGRATING AN SSH CLIENT

By default, Network Director allows you to launch web and Telnet management against any device which supports these administration interfaces.

Network Director also has built-in support for other management applications supported by specific device types (see Chapter 12 for more information).

Network Director does not include any default support for devices which support SSH (Secure SHell) administration. However, you can integrate your own SSH client into Network Director by doing the following:

1Locate the following file on your disk:

<Installation Directory>\SSHClient.properties

2Follow the instructions at the top of this file.

Once your client is integrated, the option SSH Management... will appear on the pull-right menu for all devices on your map.

Network Director will call your client with a single command line parameter: the target device's IP address.

If your SSH client expects multiple parameters, or expects the client's IP address to be passed with additional command line options, you can achieve this by:

■instead of specifying the SSH client's name directly in SSHClient.properties, specify a batch file instead.

■in your batch file, you can call your client with any additional options or parameters that you wish. The client's IP address will be available within your batch file as %1%.