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Prerequisites for Accessing the E10K/12K/15K System Controller

The SSH keys must be generated on both the system controller and its domains. You must perform the following prerequisites for accessing the system controller:

1. Use the "ssh-keygen" command to set up the SSH keys on the system controller and the domain systems. Once the SSH keys are set up, the agent uses SSH and accesses the system controller to collect the relevant inventory information.

   Note: The SSH package is not installed by default on Solaris 8 or later; you can download it from the http://www.openssh.org/ site.

2. As a root user, run ssh-keygen on the domain.

   This generates two keys—a private key and a public key. These keys are stored in ~/.ssh/ id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

3. Add the contents of the public key file (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) into the intended asset management user, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, on the system controller.

   Now you can use SSH to log in to the system controller without being prompted for a password.