Managing Host Key and User Key Inventories
Before you begin: You can access this functionality only if you have the ACF permissions enabled for your role.
SSH uses SSH keys to encrypt communication with a remote system. SSH keys usually come in pairs comprising a public and a private key and are used to grant access to authorized personnel to critical systems such as cloud, on-premise servers, and network devices. The public key (or host key) can be freely shared and is used to encrypt data sent to remote server or user; the private key (or user key) must only be with the user and be kept secret as it is used to decrypt data sent from remote server or user. It is generated by the local machine and kept in a secure location.
This chapter guides you through all the actions that can be carried out on the keys. Actions on keys such as deletion, status change, export, and upload of keys are possible.
- View details of the user key and host key. See Viewing User/Host Key Inventory.
- Delete, change status, export, upload user key or host key. See Actions in Key Inventory.
- Discover and add hosts to the host inventory. See Adding Host.
- View details of the hosts. See Viewing Host Inventory.
- Decommission inactive hosts or delete active hosts, add credentials to the host server, fetch host key from the host inventory, and export details of the host to a .csv or .xlsx format. See Actions in Key Inventory.
