SSH Connect

The Webscale Monitoring Agent can be used to facilitate easy SSH access to authorized users directly via the Webscale Control Plane. Enabling SSH Connect within WMA will register the host with the Webscale Control Plane and allow the WMA to manage Webscale users on the host.

Registration

In order to connect to a host via SSH Connect, that host must be registered with Webscale. (See SSH Connect documentation for more details on registration.) When WMA is started with ssh enabled, the WMA will attempt to register the host automatically. Upon successful registration, it will then subscribe to Webscale’s Pub/Sub API to receive any user updates for the host. This allows users to be created and removed on the host as needed by the SSH Connect facility. (See Connecting to Hosts)

User management

Users created by the SSH Connect facility will be created with a name that corresponds to their Webscale registered email followed by an underscore ‘_’ and their Webscale API ID. All session activity over SSH Connect is recorded and session logs can be accessed through the Webscale Control Plane. If a user’s access is revoked, the WMA will remove that user from the registered host.