H3C Technologies H3C S3600 Series Switches - Manual (Page 962)

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SFTP Configuration: A Switch Operating as an SFTP Server
Enabling an SFTP server
Before enabling an SFTP server, you need to enable the SSH server function and specify the service
type of the SSH user as SFTP or all. For details, see the SSH server configuration part of SSH
Operation Manual of this manual.
Follow these steps to enable an SFTP server:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view system-view —
Enable an SFTP server sftp server enable
Required
Disabled by default.
Configuring connection idle time
After the idle time is configured, if the server does not receive service requests from a client within a
specified time period, it terminates the connection with the client, thus preventing a user from occupying
the connection for a long time without performing any operation.
Follow these steps to configure connection idle time:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view system-view —
Configure the connection idle
time for the SFTP server
ftp timeout time-out-value
Optional
10 minutes by default.
Supported SFTP client software
An H3C S3600 series Ethernet switch operating as an SFTP server can interoperate with SFTP client
software, including SSH Tectia Client v4.2.0 (SFTP), v5.0, and WINSCP.
SFTP client software supports the following operations: logging in to a device; uploading a file;
downloading a file; creating a directory; modify a file name or a directory name; browsing directory
structure; and manually terminating a connection.
For configurations on client software, see the corresponding configuration manual.