Enable SSH on vSphere Management Assistant 5.0

May 1, 2014 vSphere Management Assistant
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While continuing to build out my lab for VCAP-DCA today I had to deploy the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant). Upon deployment i tried to SSH to it and unfortunately was not able to. By default SSH is turned off, perform the steps below to enable it.

  1. Logon to vMA via a Console Session

  2. Run

    • ‘sudo vi /etc/hosts.allow’

  3. Scroll to the very bottom and type i to insert content into the file.

  4. On the last line add

    • ‘sshd: ALL: ALLOW’

  5. Hit ‘ESC’ then type ‘:wq!’ to save.

  6. Restart SSH services to enable the change.

    • ‘sudo /etc/initd/sshd restart’

  7. You will now be able to SSH to the vMA.

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