SCOM 2007 CrossPlatform Extension Overview

OpenSSH:
developed by the OpenBSD Project, provides for secure communication between two systems, and delivers authentication, authorization, and confidentiality services. Operations Manager 2007 uses OpenSSH in several ways:
- During deployment, the secure copy (scp) capability of OpenSSH is used to securely copy the Ops Mgr Cross Plat agent to the target machine, and then initiate the agent and any required supporting processes (such as OpenPegasus and WS_Management) should they not be operational.
- During operations, should there be an issue with any of the supporting processes or should the agent process fail, Operations Manager 2007 can communicate with the managed system through OpenSSH and restart the failed service.