Accessing the OnBoard Appliance and Connected Devices : Accessing the OnBoard Appliance’s Console

Accessing the OnBoard Appliance’s Console
As described under User Shell (rmenush) and OnBoard Shell (onbdshell), authorized users who connect to the OnBoard appliance’s console are presented with a menu of choices. From the initial menu, users can bring up a list of devices that they are authorized to access and then access a submenu of management actions they can perform on the selected device.
This section describes how to access the OnBoard appliance’s console using SSH. The following procedure requires the listed prerequisites in order to succeed. The format of the ssh command is described in The ssh command line format.
To access the OnBoard appliance console:
1.
If you are using a terminal or terminal emulation program installed on a workstation that is physically connected to the console port of the OnBoard appliance, start the terminal session with the following factory-default console port settings.
Serial Speed: 9600 bps
Parity: None
Flow Control: None
Data Length: 8 bits
Stop Bits: 1
ANSI emulation
2.
The following example shows entering an ssh command with francisco as the username and 192.168.44.111 as the IP address.
% ssh francisco@:192.168.44.111
3.
After authentication and login, a shell prompt appears for administrative users (root, admin or other users who are members of the admin group). For authorized non-administrative users, the user shell menu appears.