Minggu, 06 Februari 2011

How to SSH into your XenServer from Mac and Windows



Sometimes it comes in handy to manage your XenServer via command line. Maybe you just want to perform some of the xsconsole functions. Here are some options:



From a Mac:



1. Navigate to Applications > Utilities > Terminal

2. use the ssh command to get to your XenServer. lets try an example where we are connecting with teh default root account on a host called xenserver-phx01 and password is MyPassword1



ssh -l root xenserver-phx01


You can aso specify a port if you were to change the default ssh port from the default of 22



ssh -l root xenserver-phx01 -p 8080





Here is a screen shot of the mac terminal accessing a XenServer







of course you can also run the xsconsole to get the Text UI:







The same commands apply to a connection from a linux machine.




Here are some screen shots from a windows machine using putty.










If you have many machines to administer among difference connection types Felix Deimel from mRemote.org (merged with VisionApp) has a cool tool called mRemote that you can use as well.







You can use the configuration console to enter the address, port username etc for connection.








Happy SSH'ing!

rat








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