SSH authentication

SSH connection between a Network Protocol Manager host and a Cisco router shows an SSH connection between a client and a server.

Figure 1. SSH connection between a Network Protocol Manager host and a Cisco router

The client is the SSH client software that connects users to the SSH server on the remote host. The server is the SSH server program, or ssh daemon, that is running on the remote host. In SSH connection between a Network Protocol Manager host and a Cisco router, the client and server enable a user named NPMUser on a Network Protocol Manager host to log in as ServerUser on a Cisco router.

SSH authentication begins with the authentication of the server to the client, and ends with the authentication of the client to the server.