Enable SSH Availability

About this task

ExtremeCloud IQ provides a way to access devices remotely using the SSH protocol. Because best practices suggest that SSH access to internal devices be blocked from external access, ExtremeCloud IQ uses an SSH proxy server to mediate the end-to-end connection between an external device that will manage files on your client device.
Note

Note

Enabling SSH availability potentially gives others direct access to your devices during the time that SSH access is available. While active, SSH Availability exposes your device to the public Internet through an SSH proxy, protected only by the device administrator credentials, as SSH FTP assumes that it is run over a secure channel.

Use these steps to enable SSH.

Procedure

  1. From Administration > Global Settings, select VIQ Management.
  2. Toggle ON SSH Availability.

What to do next

Navigate to Manage > Devices > host_name > Additional Device Settings > SSH, select the length of time during which you want to make SSH available, and then select Enable SSH. ExtremeCloud IQ then creates an SSH session for the specified length of time between the SSH proxy server and the external device.