Remote Session

Use the Remote Session task to run command-line programs on a remote managed system. Remote Session creates less network traffic and uses fewer system resources than the Remote Control task and therefore is useful in low-bandwidth situations.

Note: You can have multiple remote sessions active at the same time, but you can have only one remote session through a management server to a single managed system.
Icon Remote
Session icon
Supported IBM® Director objects SNMP devices and Level-0, Level-1, and Level-2 managed systems
Supported operating systems

All operating systems supported by IBM Director. For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations None
Required software None
Required protocols
  • (SNMP devices) The SSH or Telnet protocol is required.
  • (Managed systems running Linux® or UNIX®) The SSH protocol is required.
    Note: If the SSH server on the managed system does not respond, the Remote Session task attempts to use the Telnet protocol to connect to the managed system.
  • (Managed systems running i5/OS™) The Telnet protocol is required.
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task None
Related tasks
Establishing a remote session
Related reference
Remote Session window

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