AFT: How to use SSH Key with AFT

[samuel]

Hello Everybody,

1 - I'm trying to initiate a FTP transfer between 2 AIX hosts using SSH.
I would like to use public and private keys to identify themselves to a server, instead of using a password.

My question: Must I fill in the password even if I use the "key authentication" functionality? for the moment, I can't validate the account if I don't put the password.

2 - We have several clusters. When a node switch to the failover node, I have to suppress the entry in the file "know_hosts" and revalidate the account because the SSH key is different. How can I manage this kind of situation ?

If someone has experienced this kind of problems. Any help will be really appreciate

Configuration:

- OS AIX 5.3
- Control-M 6.2
- CM AFT 6.2.0.2

Thanks a lot!

[gglau]

Not sure on AFT 6.2, but for 6.3

1) Password is optional for SSH private key
2) AFT 6.3.01 FP1 allows multiple host keys for the same host, i.e. unique key for each cluster node under the same cluster name. Check your documentation/configuration interface if there is such a setting.

Hope this helps.