NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 4.5P1 released!

[Girton]

One issue I encountered on W2K12R2, even after installing Putty 64-bit V0.70, was that PowerShell kept saying:

     Please install putty (version putty-64bit-0.70) on your machine to use this cmdlet.

I used SysInternal's 'Procmon.exe' utility to monitor PowerShell's access to the registry, and I saw that it was looking for this registry key:
   HKCU\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY64

It turned out that my W2K12R2 server didn't have a registry key called 'PuTTY64', it had 'PuTTY'.  I added '64' to the registry key, so it looked like 'PuTTY64', and then the InovkeNcSsh cmdlet worked like it was supposed to.

I suspect that I had a 32-bit version of PuTTY installed prior to installing the 64-bit version, and the registry key didn't get updated to 'PuTTY64', since it already existed.

I made sure that the permission were as described elsewhere in the thread:

   All application packages: Full Control
   Users (of the local machine your on): Full Control

I hope that this information helps others who are trying to get the InovkeNcSsh cmdlet to work.

[DevoidB]

Just and update to this post. I was able to complete the invoke-ncssh command by making sure that I was running powershell as administrator as well as copying plink.exe was copied into my module install path (C:\Program Files (x86)\Netapp\NetApp PowerShell Toolkit\Modules\DataONTAP). This returned the output that I was looking for!

[garyfritz]

I tried to reply to asulliva@netapp.com to register interest in Core, but his address doesn't work.  NetApp folks, is there someone else who is monitoring this now?

[Tas]

That's great, but my question is why are you using Putty and not the Windows OpenSSH?  This would be extremely usefull in closed environments, requiring FIPS-140-2 certificated OS's.

[jim_ctr_merrell]

I am in the same boat.   Worked in 9.1p15.  Broken in 9.5p2.  Running Putty 0.71 64-bit.   Running powershell "as administrator" and setting the reg keys don't work.   I'm getting:

invoke-ncssh : An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

[Tas]

Can I beseech someone at NetApp to please ask the developers consider using MS OpenSSH instead of Putty?  Not only will it then not require non-Windows utilities, but it will also be FIPS-140 compliant.

Please?

[jim_ctr_merrell]

Here is a complete list of steps I have documented in order to get invoke-ncssh to work:

1) Run Powershell v5.x or higher
2) Install only the newest Powershell tools from Netapp (=> 9.x)

3) Install putty release 0.72 or newer

4) Add reg keys for (copy from valid source):
     [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham]
     [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY]
     [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY64]
5) Add the user to "full" control of the Putty reg keys
6) Launch PS "As Administrator" ( start-process powershell -verb RunAs )
7) Connect to the Netapp with a local account, not an Active Directory Account