1. Secure Shell (SSH) Environment (Revision #174)

Today's high-performance servers and highly scalable databases are mission critical for both data processing and reporting. Many large companies have 100s or even 1000s of servers and require their employees to have secure/restricted access to these servers. Employees typically employ a wide variety of tools to connect to and manage these servers, which impacts their productivity and increases company cost. AquaFold's goal is to help organizations simplify tasks and lower costs. Aqua Data Studio v10.0 achieves this goal by delivering a complete Secure Shell (SSH) Environment and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for databases within a single unified interface. Companies can now replace many single purpose tools with Aqua Data Studio v10.0.

What can I do with Aqua Data Studio's SSH Environment?

Connect, Visualize, Execute and Share.

• Register and reuse SSH Server connections in Aqua Data Studio v 10.0 and Connect to remote hosts with a secure interface
• Generate public/private key pair using the Key Generator tool
• Option to store a ssh private key passphrase for a session so that subsequent connects from the same machine using ADS does not require typing the passphrase again
• Visualize and manage 1000s of terminals in multiple tabbed sessions
• Open display oriented interactive Text Editors like vi, vim, emacs
• Execute commands on remote servers. Supports common Unix file operations (chmod, chown, ln, find), Unix system status commands(last,w,who,uname), advanced process management commands (ps, ptree, top), Unix filesystems commands(fstyp,df,du), and Unix filesystem management (mount, umount, fsck, mkfs).
• Share Aqua Data Studio SSH Environment configurations with other users to save time
• Save your workspace so that on restart Aqua Data Studio displays all your multiple tabbed sessions without the need to open each individual connection

What's new?

Register SSH Server	SSH Server Menus	SSH Servers in Tabs	SSH Options and Reconnect Button	SSH Find in Buffer	Key Generator for authorized_keys file

Register multiple SSH Server connections in the Schema Browser: 

You can register a SSH Server just like any other DB Server connection in the application. You need to provide the authentication and host details. The connections can be customized in the Servers Browser and opened (one or several at a time) by using Shortcut Toolbar shortcuts and Shortcut Toolbar folders. The inclusion of the SSH Shell Environment allows secure command-line server and database interaction.

"Connect" and "Connect As" Options

With the Connect option you can establish a secure SSH connection with the supplied authentication information. You can use the Connect As option to SSH directly if you have many remote user logins. This prompts for the username and password.

Clone a registration

You can quickly create a clone of an already registered server using the Register SSH Server Clone option.

Session Tabs

Like Database Server Connections, SSH Connections also open in individual tabs which can be organized within Aqua Data Studio's Workspace and Docking Framework. The Docking Framework allows grouping, coloring, stacking and navigating tabbed SSH terminal windows in a workspace.  

Reconnect to a server

You can quickly reconnect to registered servers using the Reconnect Icon available on the toolbar.

Copy and Paste commands

Aqua Data Studio v10.0 has options in the SSH terminal for the user to copy Unix commands and paste them by selecting then right-clicking or by selecting and clicking the copy and paste icons in the toolbar.

Find in Buffer

Find in Buffer allows searching and highlighting text in the current SSH connection tab. Navigating the found highlighted items can be done with Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of the SSH connection frame. This functionality is similar to the Search functions in the other Aqua Data Studio editors. It supports searching for Match Case, Whole Word and Regular Expressions.

Terminal Emulation

VT100, VT102, VT200, VT220, Xterm and Linux console, with 256-color palette support and alternate screen buffer mode.  Supports mouse modes: X10, VT200, VT200 Hilite, Button Event Tracking and Any Event Tracking.

SSH1 and SSH2 support

Both SSH1 and SSH2 are supported in a single client, providing the maximum in flexibility when connecting to a range of remote servers.

Encryption ciphers

Supports AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, 3DES, DSA, RSA, SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA-1 encryption.

Unicode support

Unicode support includes the ability to display character sets from multiple languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean multi-byte character sets.

80/132-column support

Supports automatic switching between 80 and 132-column display.

Window size change

Supporting the NAWS extension, which informs the remote system anytime the window is resized and the rows and columns change. For applications like Vi and Emacs, this ensures that the terminal stays in sync with the remote system without manually adjusting the remote's settings