SSH Terminal

The SSH Channel plugin turns IO Ninja into a versatile SSH client. Switch to terminal view and work with your server just like you would with any other SSH client, or use IO Ninja's extensive data handling capabilities provided in log view.

The SSH Channel plugin lets you choose SSH channel type, SSH process type and PTY type, and gives you full control over the underlying TCP socket, just like the TCP Connection plugin does.

Why SSH Channel?

Powerful & Beautiful Logging Engine

The Ninja Scroll logging engine is the heart of IO Ninja! It offers many unique and useful features you won't find in other SSH terminals, such as interleaving binary data with informational messages for a clear timeline of events, switching between hex-view and plain-text view of binary data, a regex markup engine for highlighting data based on regular expressions, and many others!

Versatile Transmission Facilities

IO Ninja features convenient and powerful tools for preparing SSH packets before transmission. We offer a plain text editor with support for C ESC-sequences to encode special characters, a modern Unicode-enabled hex editor, and a file transmit feature.

A history of recently transmitted SSH packets is maintained, and you can also build your own libraries of commonly used packets — then send those packets with a mouse click!

Scriptability

With the Script Pane, you can generate SSH packets programmatically, wait for and react to SSH events, and automatically reply to incoming data, etc.

For more complex binary packets, you can describe the structure and methods for updating checksums or other auto-calculated fields as a Packet Template, then conveniently fill in the fields in a property grid.

Getting Started

Step 1. Start a Session

Begin by launching an SSH Channel session.

Step 2. Enter Address

Enter the address of the server you want to connect to and press "Connect".

Step 3. Enter Credentials

Enter your credentials and press "OK".

Step 4. Enter Terminal Mode

If required, press the "Show Terminal" button to enter terminal mode.

Step 5. Use SSH Channel as Required

You may now use SSH Channel as you would any other SSH terminal.

Documentation

Resource
SSH Channel Documentation in the IO Ninja User Manual

Plugin	Relevance
SSL Terminal	A highly configurable raw SSL client-side terminal.
SSL Server Terminal	Server-side version of SSL Connection, used to accept incoming SSL connections.