You can use Remote Execution and Access in WebSphere Application Server Version 8.x and 7.x. WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment provides management features, such as initiating installations of product packages and maintenance from the administrative console. The product uses the Tivoli Remote Execution and Access (RXA) toolkit to access your remote workstations.
Many RXA operations require access to resources that are not generally accessible by standard user accounts. Therefore, the account names that you use to log onto remote Windows targets must have administrative privileges.
Windows XP system targets must have simple file sharing disabled for RXA to work. Simple networking requires that you log in as guest. A guest login does not have the authorization necessary for RXA to function correctly.
To disable Simple File Sharing, open Windows Explorer and click Use Simple File Sharing check box. Click Apply and OK.
. Clear theIn order for RXA to connect to a user on a host on Microsoft Windows 2008/Vista/7, User Account Control (UAC) must be disabled. If UAC is not disabled, the connection fails. To Disable UAC, follow these steps:
Windows XP systems include a built-in firewall called the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF), which is disabled by default. For Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems, the Windows firewall is enabled by default. If either firewall is enabled on a Windows target workstation, RXA cannot access the target workstation. On Windows XP Service Pack 2, you can select the File and Printer Sharing check box in the Exceptions tab of the Windows Firewall configuration to allow access. Do not block port 445.
RXA cannot establish a connection unless file sharing and printer sharing are enabled. To enable file sharing and printer sharing, follow these steps:
You must enable administrative sharing to successfully use RXA to connect to your Windows systems targets. Examples of the default administrative disk share are C$ and D$ . If you disable sharing, RXA considers directories that are located within the drives as hidden. In this case, the following message is displayed:
XCIM0009E: Error connecting to remote target <host_name>. Exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
CTGRI0003E The remote path name specified cannot be found: file_or_directory_path>.
Cause: com.starla.smb.SMBException: The network name is incorrect.
Follow these steps to enable administrative sharing:
The centralized installation manager, through RXA, uses SSH Version 2 to access UNIX and Linux target workstations. This usage requires the use of either OpenSSH 3.6.1 (or, if accessing AIX targets, OpenSSH 4.7), or Sun SSH 1.1 on the target hosts.
Note that OpenSSH 3.7.1, or higher, contains security enhancements not available in earlier releases, and is recommended.
Remote Execution and Access does not supply SSH code for UNIX operating systems. You must ensure SSH is installed and enabled on any target you want to access using CIM.
In all UNIX environments except Solaris, the Bourne shell (sh) is used as the target shell. On Solaris targets, the Korn shell (ksh) is used instead due to problems encountered with sh.
PasswordAuthentication yes
The default value for the PasswordAuthentication property is no.
/etc/init.d/sshd stop
/etc/init.d/sshd start
Use of SSH public/private key authentication to IBM® i targets is not supported.