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You can schedule one or more SSH Key Discovery jobs to run automatically against the accounts you have added to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords (SPP). The SSH keys in the scope of the discovery job may include SSH keys that were previously added (manually) to the SPP partition.

You can create or edit an SSH Key Discovery job from Administrative Tools | Settings | SSH Key Management | Discover SSH Key. For more information, see Discover SSH Key settings.

When an SSH Key Discovery job runs, the found SSH keys are listed in the Discovered SSH Keys tile in the selected partition. They are also shown in Assets (under the Discovered SSH Keys tab) and in Accounts (under the Discovered SSH Keys tab).

Supported platforms

SSH Key Discovery is supported on the following platforms:

Hardware/Custom (A custom script is required to accommodate how keys are handled.)
Drac
Fortinet
Junos
PanOs
Window OS
General Unix style platforms
- Linux
- Aix
- Hpux
- Solaris
- F5BigIP
- FreeBSD
- MacOS

Properties and toolbar

Go to SSH Key Discovery:

web client: Navigate to Asset Management | Discovery | SSH Keys.
desktop client: Navigate to Administrative Tools | Discovery | SSH Key Discovery.

Use these toolbar buttons to manage the SSH Key Discovery jobs.

Table 108: SSH Key Discovery: Toolbar
Option	Description
Add / New SSH Key Discovery Job	Add an SSH Key Discovery job. For more information, see Adding an SSH Key Discovery job.
Delete Selected / Delete	Delete the selected SSH Key Discovery job.
Edit / View Details	Modify the selected SSH Key Discovery job. You can also double-click a row to open the edit dialog.
Discover SSH Keys	Click this button to open a new window where you can select a single account to run the selected SSH Key Discovery job on.
Details ( desktop client only)	View additional details about the selected SSH Key Discovery job. A task may complete successfully but still have Warnings. Click Details to view task execution activity including any warnings.
Information( desktop client only)	View the accounts associated with the selected discover SSH key settings by account Name and Asset Name. The Inherited column has a check mark if the assignment is an inherited association via the asset. If not inherited, the accounts have an explicit assignment to a Profile/SSH Key Discovery job. For more information, see About profiles.
Refresh	Update the list of SSH Key Discovery jobs.
Search	Enter the character string to be used to search for a match. For more information, see Search box.

SSH Key Discovery jobs display in the grid.

Table 109: SSH Key Discovery: SSH Key Discovery job grid
Name	Name of the SSH Key Discovery job.
Creator /Created By	Indicates the creator of the SSH Key Discovery job.
Partition	The partition in which to manage the discovered SSH keys.
Schedule	Designates when the SSH Key Discovery job runs.
Profile Count /Profiles	Lists the number of profiles that are configured with this job. Click the link to go to the SSH Key Profiles dialog that lists the Name and Description of the SSH key profiles that are associated with this SSH key discovery job.
Account Count/ Accounts	Lists the number of accounts are associated with this SSH key discovery job via profile association. Click the link to view the account Name and parent System Name of this SSH key discovery job.

SSH Key Discovery job workflow

The SSH Key Discovery jobs discover SSH keys of the accounts that are in the scope of the profile. You can configure, schedule, and run SSH Key Discovery jobs. After a job has run, you can view the Discovered SSH Keys under the tab of that name. You will see the following: Key Fingerprint, Comment (that is in the key), Key Type, Key Length, Asset Name, Account Name, and Account Status ("managed" means Safeguard for Privileged Passwords manages the account, and "disabled" means Safeguard for Privileged Passwords does not manage the account).

Set up the partition with the SSH key profile. For more information, see SSH Key Profiles tab (partitions).
Create an SSH Key Discovery job. For more information, see Adding an SSH Key Discovery job.
SSH Key Discovery jobs can be scheduled to run automatically. In addition you can manually launch a job on a single account:

desktop client
- From Administrative Tools | Discovery | SSH Key Discovery select the SSH Key Discovery job to run, then click Discover SSH Keys.
- From Administrative Tools | Accounts, right-click on the account then select Discover SSH Keys.
web client
- From Asset Management | Discovery | SSH Keys select the SSH Key Discovery job to run, then click Discover SSH Keys.
After the SSH Key Discovery job runs, click SSH Key Discovery Results tile to view the SSH Keys found. For more information, see SSH Key Discovery Results.

NOTE: The discovery job finds all current SSH keys that match the discovery rule's criteria. SSH Key Discovery does not update existing accounts.

Search the Activity Center for information about discovery jobs that have run. Safeguard for Privileged Passwords lists the SSH Key Discovery events in the SSH Key Discovery Activity category. For more information, see Activity Center.

Adding an SSH Key Discovery job

It is the responsibility of the Asset Administrator or the partition's delegated administrator to configure the rules that govern how Safeguard for Privileged Passwords performs SSH key discovery. For more information, see SSH Key Discovery job workflow.