Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] · Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:31:46 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

SLAC is tightening up security on its networks
and so plans are in the works to disable 
rlogin and telnet. SSH is intended to replace
RSH commands such as rlogin,rsh,rcp ,etc and telnet.
So does anyone know how I can use ssh to log onto
and ioc. I thought that I had read about another
mechanism to log onto an ioc other than rlogin and
telnet, but I couldn't find it in the vxworks manual.

In addition we have the problem of not being
able to log onto the ioc console if vxWorks doesn't boot
because of some glitch in the network when rebooting. 
Currently this requires a drive down to the
ioc and a manual reboot. Although this doesn't happen 
often, the remote reboot cabability is important.
We do have a request into hardware to build a 
something that will provide us with this functionality
however this item is low on the priority list.  
What are other people using to remotely reboot or
connect to an ioc, if vxWorks hasn't booted.
I'm looking for a cheaper solution than purchasing
a sun station to connect to the ioc console port.

   - Thanks,
        Kristi Luchini

PS. We are using vxWorks 5.3.1
    VME and VXI crates (w/ mv167,niCpu030 cpu's)
    Console ports connected to a local terminal.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System