How to access a storage system using a Remote Shell connection

You can access a storage system by using a Remote Shell with trusted remote hosts.

Trusted remote hosts are hosts listed in /etc/hosts.equiv on the root volume.

You can have up to 24 concurrent rsh sessions running on a storage system, and you can have up to 4 concurrent rsh sessions running on each vFiler unit.

• When to use the rsh command with user names and passwords
  Under some circumstances, you should consider supplying a user name and a password when using the rsh protocol to run a command on the storage system.
• Format for rsh commands with user name and password
  The format for rsh commands that include a user name and, optionally, a password is as follows: rsh -l username [:password] host_command
• Commands not accepted from rsh
  Several commands cannot be executed if you use the rsh command.
• Accessing a storage system from a UNIX client by using an rsh command
  You can access a storage system from a UNIX client by using the rsh command.
• Accessing a storage system from a Windows client by using a Remote Shell application
  You can access a storage system from a Windows client by using a Remote Shell application.
• How to reset options to default values from rsh
  If you want to reset options to their default values from rsh, you must precede the quotation characters (") with the escape character, which is the backslash (\).
• Displaying rsh session information
  You can view information about rsh sessions, such as the number of rsh sessions invoked, the number of currently active rsh sessions, and the highest number of concurrently active rsh sessions.