Management Station to Device SSH failed in LMS 2.6

[santipongv]

I recently upgraded IOS on Catalyst 2960 to support SSH v2. I ran "Management Station to Device" for SSH from the Device Center and it failed. From packet capture, it shows "Server Protocol: SSH-2-Cisco1.25". Does this mean that SSH within CiscoWorks LMS 2.6 only support SSH v1? How can I resolve this problem? Thank you in advance.

[Joe Clarke]

I filed a bug against Management Station Device for SSH. The timeout specified is being treated as milliseconds instead of seconds. Try multiplying your timeout by 1000, and see if it works.

[santipongv]

Where can I change my timeout settings?

[Joe Clarke]

Ah, looks like the timeout was added in LMS 3.0. The code in LMS uses a static timeout. However, looking at the code, SSHv2 is explicitly not supported in LMS 2.6. The code looks to see that the device replies with SSH-1.5 or SSH-1.99. If the device replies with pure SSHv2 (i.e. SSH-2.0), then the code throws an unsupported version error.

In any event, a better way to test connectivity in any version of LMS is to use RME's Device Credential Verification feature. Go to RME > Devices > Device Management > Device Credential Verification Jobs, and create a new job to test SSH. RME does support SSHv2.

[lemontgomery]

Is there any patch or update for 2.6 to support CW 2.6?

[lemontgomery]

sorry are there any patches or updates for 2.6 to support sshv2.

[Joe Clarke]

Please start a new thread for this question.