You can use Bitvise WinSSHD to provide SSH access to Windows systems.
For gateway-based discovery, Bitvise WinSSHD must be installed
on the gateway system. For direct SSH discovery, Bitvise WinSSHD must
be installed on each Windows system.
For more information about the supported Bitvise
WinSSHD versions, see Windows gateways.
Bitvise
WinSSHD is available from http://www.bitvise.com/.
The following steps describe how to configure Bitvise
WinSSHD 5.22. The specific steps can differ depending on the release
of Bitvise WinSSHD that you have.
- To restrict SSH host access to the TADDM server, complete
the following steps:
- In the WinSSHD Control Panel, click Open
easy settings.
- On the Server settings tab, for
the Open Windows Firewall field, select As
set in Advanced WinSSHD settings.
- Click Save Changes.
- In the WinSSHD Control Panel, click Edit
advanced settings.
The Advanced WinSSDH
Settings window is displayed.
- Click .
- Set the value of the following items to 0:
- IP blocking - window duration
- IP blocking - lockout time
- Click OK.
- In the WinSSHD Control Panel, click Edit
advanced settings.
The Advanced WinSSDH
Settings window is displayed.
- Click .
- In the right pane, click IP rules.
- Click Add.
- Type the IP address of the TADDM server.
- In the Number of significant bits field,
type 32.
- In the Description field, type TADDM
server.
- Ensure that the Allow connect check
box is selected.
- Click OK.
- Remove the 0.0.0.0/0 entry from
the list.
- To create and configure a virtual group and users, complete
the following steps:
- In the WinSSHD Control Panel, click Edit
advanced settings.
The Advanced WinSSDH
Settings window is displayed.
- Click .
- To add a new group, click Add.
- In the Group and Windows
Account Name fields, type a name.
- Click OK.
- Click .
- To add a new account, click Add.
- In the Virtual account name field,
type a name.
- Set a password using the link for the virtual account
password.
- From the drop-down list, select the virtual group that
you created in a previous step, and ensure that the Use
group default Windows account check box is selected.
- Click OK.
- In the WinSSHD Control Panel, click Start
WinSSHD.
If you are discovering multiple Windows servers, you might
experience the following message:
A Working gateway cannot be found
For more information about additional configuration
that might help, see Gateway problems.