PuTTY pscp (or scp) provides a file transfer application
for secure shell (SSH) to copy files either between two directories
on the configuration node or between the configuration node and
another host.
To use the pscp application, you must have the appropriate
permissions on the source and destination directories on your respective
hosts.
The pscp or scp application is available when you install
an SSH client on your host system. You can access the pscp application
through a MicrosoftWindows command prompt. For Linux users, the scp
is installed with the openssh packages.
Complete these
steps to use the pscp application. The scp process is similar
from step 6.
- Start a PuTTY session.
- Configure your PuTTY session to access your system.
- Save your PuTTY configuration session. For example,
you can name your saved session SVCPUTTY.
- Open a command prompt.
- Issue this command to set the path environment variable
to include the PuTTY directory:
set path=C:\Program Files\putty;%path%
where C:\Program Files\putty is the directory where
PuTTY is installed.
- Issue this command to copy the package onto the
node where the CLI runs:
pscp -load saved_putty_configurationdirectory_software_upgrade_files/software_upgrade_file_nameusername@cluster_ip_address:/home/admin/update
where
saved_putty_configuration is the name of the PuTTY configuration session,
directory_software_upgrade_files is the location of the
softwareupdate files,
software_upgrade_file_name is the name of
the
softwareupdate file,
username is the name that you want
to use on the system, and
cluster_ip_address is
an IP address of your
clustered system.
Note: Saving the PuTTY configuration session in step
3 and
then loading the PuTTY configuration session in step
6
is optional. To copy without loading a PuTTY configuration session,
use the following syntax:
pscp directory_software_upgrade_files/software_upgrade_file_nameusername@cluster_ip_address:/home/admin/update
If there is insufficient space to store the softwareupdate file
on the system, the copy process fails. In this case, complete
the following steps:
- Use pscp to copy data that you want to preserve from
the /home/admin/update directory.
- Use the following command to delete dump files in the
/home/admin/update directory:
cleardumps -prefix /home/admin/update
- Repeat step 6.