Agentless SSH key management

Secured Shell (SSH) keys are communication protocols that enable secure data communication through a secure channel. In Control-M, SSH keys are used when agents communicate with remote hosts. Control-M/Agent uses the SSH protocol to upload and download files and to submit the job to the remote host. SSH key authentication method is only available for job run as users of remote host jobs using the SSH communication protocol.

The Manage Agentless SSH key option enables you to create, delete, or edit SSH keys for remote hosts and to save public SSH keys on your local computer for further deployment on remote hosts of SSH servers.

The following procedures describe how to create, edit, copy and delete SSH keys:

Parent Topic

Control-M security

See Also

Copying public keys to the SSH server