Logging in to the RLM

Prerequisite for logging in to the RLM

Before logging in to the RLM, you must perform the following tasks:

Install a secure shell client application that is appropriate for your administration host, such as SSH, OpenSSH for UNIX hosts, or PuTTY for Windows hosts.
Ensure you have a user account and password with administrative privileges on the storage system. For information about storage system administrator accounts, see About managing administrator access.
The RLM uses the same user credentials as the storage system. Changes to user account information on the storage system are updated to the RLM. User accounts cannot be created on the RLM.

Note
The RLM does not allow you to log in with the system administration account name of root. If you want to log in using the root account, use the name naroot. Then, if you are prompted for a password, type in the storage system root password.

Note
To provide additional security against unauthorized access to the storage system, create a password for the system administration account (root) for storage systems with an RLM installed.

For more information about how to create system administration accounts on storage system, see About managing administrator access.

For more information about configuring your storage system to use SSH with SecureAdmin, see Chapter 9, Using SecureAdmin and the na_secureadmin(1) man page.

Logging in to the RLM from a UNIX host

To log in to the RLM from a UNIX host, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Ensure a secure shell application is installed on the UNIX host.
2	Enter the following command: `ra_host>` `secure_shell_app username@RLM_IP_address` Example Logging in as root: `ra_host> ssh naroot@193.20.21.123` Logging in as root: `ra_host> ssh joe@193.20.21.123`

Step

Action

Ensure a secure shell application is installed on the UNIX host.

Enter the following command:

ra_host> secure_shell_app username@RLM_IP_address

Example

Logging in as root: ra_host> ssh naroot@193.20.21.123

Logging in as root: ra_host> ssh joe@193.20.21.123

Logging in to the RLM from a Windows host

To log in to RLM from a Windows host, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Download a secure shell application for Windows, such as PuTTY, and configure the IP address of the RLM.
2	Open a Windows session to log in to the RLM and make the appropriate selections. Example

Step

Action

Download a secure shell application for Windows, such as PuTTY, and configure the IP address of the RLM.

Open a Windows session to log in to the RLM and make the appropriate selections.

Example

Only one RLM session is allowed at a time

Only one administrator can be logged in to an active RLM CLI session at a time. If you have an RLM session open, you or another administrator with privileges to log in to the RLM can close your RLM session and open a new one. This is convenient if you logged into the RLM from one computer and forgot to close the session before moving to another computer, or if another administrator wants to take over the administration tasks from a different computer.

If a session is already initiated, you will see the following message:

User username has an active CLI session.

Would you like to disconnect that session, and start yours [y/n]?

If you enter y, the session owned by username is disconnected and your session is initiated. This action is recorded in the RLM's system event log.

If the username account for the storage system is password protected, you are prompted for the password. Enter the storage system password. When you are successfully connected, you see the RLM prompt.

The RLM prompt is created by adding "RLM" in front of the hostname of the storage system. For example, if your storage system is named toaster, the storage system prompt is toaster> and the prompt for the RLM session becomes RLM toaster>.