Locate Agents and SSH Access

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Locate Agents and SSH Access

CA Configuration Automation enables you to identify the servers that have the CA Configuration Automation Agents that are installed or are configured to allow SSH access. After you identify the servers, set their state to Managed or Rejected, and assign a Management and Access Profiles to them.

Note: Enable the TCP Echo port (7) of the servers to locate the Agent or SSH.

To identify servers with CA Configuration Automation Agents or SSH access

Click the Management link, then the Servers tab.
The Servers tab page appears.
Click the check box next to one or more servers on which you want to search for an agent,search for SSH access, or obtain agent details, then select Agent Actions, Locate Agents and SSH from the Select Actions drop‑down list..
The Auto-Locate dialog appears with the Locate CA Configuration Automation Agents option and Port 8063 selected by default.
(Optional) Do one or more of the following:
- Clear the Locate CA Configuration Automation Agents check box if you do not want to locate servers with CA Configuration Automation Agents installed.
- Change the CCA Ports (from 8063) to locate CA Configuration Automation Agents listening on a non-default port. You can specify multiple ports by entering comma‑separated port numbers, or a range of ports separated by a hyphen (-). For example: 8000-8050, 8063.
- Click the Locate SSH Remote Access check box if you want to locate CCA-managed servers with SSH access configured. Selecting this option activates the Verify SSH Remote Access check box.
- Change the SSH Ports (from 22) to locate CCA-managed servers with SSH configured, but listening on a non-default port.
- Click the Verify SSH Remote Access check box, and filter the managed servers with SSH configured to only those using a specific user ID, password, or both.
Click Auto-Locate.
The selected servers are searched and the results appear on the Auto-Locate Agents/SSH Results tab.