Configuring SSH for Remote System Management

Use a secure shell (SSH) client to log on to the ztC Endurance Management VM (or the ESXi Shell, if enabled) from a remote system and manage your ztC Endurance system at the command-line level. You may need to download additional software to make this possible on some remote systems.

For example, to manage your ztC Endurance system from a Windows system, you can download and use PuTTY, a suite of open-source SSH clients:

In particular, the putty.exe program allows you access a shell to execute programs on the command line, similar to the Telnet protocol, but using secure encryption.

PuTTY also includes the pscp.exe command-line utility that allows you to securely transfer files from a remote system to the ESXi host. For example, if necessary, you can use pscp.exe to transfer new firmware files or configuration files to the system.

If you prefer a secure copy (SCP) client with a graphical user interface, you can also try the open-source WinSCP utility:

On many Linux and UNIX systems, SSH utilities are already installed and enabled by default. See ssh(1) and scp(1) for information about how to use these utilities.