How to setup SSH for Ciscoworks LMS

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While we are playing with Ciscoworks LMS3.2, figured how to setup ssh access thru Topology Service on Ciscoworks LMS – Campus Manager is really handy. We have checked Cisco.com website, but something is not really clear and details.

Here is what to do

1. Find a file is called ‘campusmgr.properties’ that Ciscoworks Campus manager look for.

– From your PC, go to Control Panel > click Java icon > click Advanced tap > Java Console > choose enable show consoles(watch screen, when you click Visualization>Topology services… you will see it what we are talking about)

– Close all Java applications and start Topology services under Visualization menu on Campus Manager.

After you saw big Java logo on the screen and you will see Java console box that is showing all the activities of java.
From the screen, find location of campusmgr.properties

In my case Java looks for the campusmgr.properties at

C:\users\ciscoworks\campusmgr.properties

 

2. Create a file as named campusmgr.properties at C:\users\ciscoworks\ (in my case)

3. Insert ‘CMSSH=c:\\tools\\putty.exe‘ in the campusmgr.properties (if you want to use putty.exe and it is located at c:\tools)

4. Make sure rename campusmgr.properties.txt to campusmgr.properties (Window will automatically save as *.txt so……)

 

Now you should be able to use SSH thru Topology Service on Ciscoworks LMS – Campus Manager

Reference : http://cisco.biz/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_campus_manager/5.1/user/guide/topo.html#wp1138794