In order to enable SSH access to Cisco Nexus 1000v (if it’s not enabled yet) followign commands have to be issues from Console or Telnet connection:

Nexus 1000v Switch
login: admin
Password:
Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
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nexus1000v# conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
nexus1000v(config)# ssh key rsa 2048 force
deleting old rsa key.....
generating rsa key(2048 bits).....
.
generated rsa key
nexus1000v(config)# ssh server enable
nexus1000v(config)#

Now you can use SecureCRT or PuTTY to connect to Cisco Nexus vis SSH of course if IP address is configured on the device and it is connected to network 🙂

Little issue with OpenSSL for Windows came out recently when I tried to create certificate request. Just after installation when tried to generate cert request got error message:

WARNING: can't open config file: /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf
Unable to load config info from /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf

Reason was that by default OpenSSL couldn’t find configuration file (even if it was located in same folder as excutable file).

So, to fix it just set environmental variable with information where openssl.cfg file is located:

set OPENSSL_CONF=c:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl.cfg

You can consider adding this to system environmental variables.