General
- Does not require OSS
- Optimzed performance (e.g. inter-process communication via Guardian IPC, not OSS sockets)
- Robust solution proven in high-volume business-critical production environments
- Professional product and implementation support
SSH daemon
- password authentication (OpenSSH supports only public key authentication)
- external userids mapped to guardian userids, allowing to keep guardian userids secret
- Advanced auditing capabilities
- Fault-tolerance (SSH server running as a nonstop process)
- Pseudo-terminals supporting full screen applications such as vi or emacs.
- Direct TACL command execution without requiring an OSS gtacl process
- 6530 terminal support (with SSH clients supporting 6530 terminal emulation, such as MR-Win6530)
SSH client
- Guardian SSH client
- Optimized for batch mode (e.g. remote passwords can be stored in a secure password store, avoiding interactive password prompts)
File Transfer
- Guardian SFTP client
- seamless Guardian and OSS filesystem support OSS and Guardian SFTP, as well as SFTP server
- ASCII mode file transfer
- transfer from/to structured files (analogous to HP's FTP)
- support of file create options, both for client and server (analogous to HP's FTP)
- fine-grained access control, restricting individual users to specific Guardian file sets, OSS directories and specific operations (e.g. download only)
- tunneling of standard FTP sessions over SSH (i.e. FTP port forwarding)