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Step 6. Deciding which remote shell to use

A distributed shell program (dsh) is used to issue remote commands from the management server to the nodes. It is contained in the csm.dsh RPM and installed by the installms command. The dsh program uses a remote shell of your choice to issue remote commands to the managed nodes.

The default shell is rsh, but you can specify a different remote shell with the DSH_REMOTE_CMD environment variable. If you wanted to switch from the default rsh shell and use the secure remote command instead, you would specify the DSH_REMOTE_CMD environment variable, with the full path name of the remote shell command. For example:

DSH_REMOTE_CMD=/usr/bin/ssh


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