Tuesday 7 May 2013

Enabling SSH on a brocade ADX1000 series load balancer


Despite what it says on http://www.brocade.com/support/Product_Manuals/ServerIron_AdminGuide/manage.2.3.html#29293 I had to do it a different way.

Getting to work is actually a lot harder.

First clear off any keys that were in there:
ServerIronADX(config)# crypto key generate rsa
ServerIronADX(config)# write mem
ServerIronADX(config)# crypto key zeroize rsa
ServerIronADX(config)# crypto key zeroize dsa

Now create a random seed

 ServerIronADX(config)# crypto random-number-seed generate


Create the DSA keys

ServerIronADX(config)# crypto key generate dsa

Also set auth to check local accounts first with

ServerIronADX(config)#  aaa authentication login default local

then after checking it works

ServerIronADX(config)#  no telnet server