Is there an SSH interface for Cisco LMS?

[austinwonderly]

Hello,

Is there an SSH interface for Cisco LMS? At the moment when I try SSHing in I am just met with a prompt for ciscoworks scp. I'm trying to get access so that I can add new devices using the dcrcli command without having to RDP into the machine that LMS is running on.

In addition, is the soap api for LMS externally accessible? I've been trying to get it to work using soapui but ended up putting that on hold after I read somewhere else that the API is not externally available, I figured I would double check on here though to see if that is actually true. 

Thank you

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

When LMS is running on a VM ("soft appliance"), the Linux-based ADE-OS is exposed via ssh.

When LMS is running on a windows server, there is no ssh interface for the LMS application.

In that case, the command line utilities are more or less accessible via a Windows command prompt that would require either native console or RDP access to the server.

The various cli-accessible features are detailed here:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4-2/user/guide/admin/admin/appendixcli.html

I've never seen anyone try to use LMS via API so you're in a very small set of users there. given that LMS is in its sunset, I wouldn't hold much hope for getting that going.

[austinwonderly]

Thanks for clarifying that. This install is running on windows so I ended up just making a server side script that reaches out to an external device for interaction.