Cisco ASR 5000 Series Administration Guide

Generating SSH Client Key Pair
You use commands in the SSH Client Configuration mode to specify a private key and generate the SSH
client key pair.
Step 1
Enter the SSH client configuration mode.
[local]host_name(config)# client ssh
[local]host_name(config-ssh)#
Step 2
Enter SSH private key information and key type.
[local]host_name(config-ssh)# ssh key private_key_string length key_length [ type v2-rsa ]
[local]host_name(config-ssh)#
key private_key_string specifies a private key value as an alphanumeric string of 1 through 4499 characters.
length key_length specifies the length of the key in bytes as an integer from 0 through 65535.
type v2-rsa specifies the SSH client key type. The only supported SSH client key type is v2-rsa.
Step 3
Generate SSH client key pair.
[local]host_name(config-ssh)# ssh generate key [ type v2-rsa ]
[local]host_name(config-ssh)#
type v2-rsa specifies the SSH client key type. The only supported SSH client key type is v2-rsa.
Step 4
Verify that the SSH client key has been generated.
[local]host_name(config-ssh)# do show ssh client key
Step 5
Exit the SSH Client Configuration mode.
[local]host_name(config-ssh)# exit
[local]host_name(config)#
Pushing an SSH Client Public Key to an External Server
You must push the SSH client public key to an external server to support SSH/SFTP access to that server.
Step 1
From the Exec mode run the push ssh-key command.
[local]host_name# push ssh-key { host_name | host_ip_address } user username [ context context_name ]
[local]host_name#
host_name specifies the remote server using its logical host name which must be resolved via DNS lookup. It is expressed
as an alphanumeric string of 1 to 127 characters.
host_ip_address is expressed in IPv4 dotted-decimal or IPv6 colon-separated-hexadecimal notation.
user username specifies a valid username on the external server as an alphanumeric string of 1 to 79 characters.
context context_name specifies a valid context name. The context name is optional. If it is not provided the current
context is used for processing.
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Cisco ASR 5000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	ASR 5000 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English