To connect to your BlueCat Equinix Virtual Appliances, you must log in as the root user via SSH with the generated key pair file.
Attention: In accordance with Equinix best practices,
authentication via passwords is disabled for BlueCat Equinix Virtual Appliances.
To connect your instances via SSH:
ssh -i <key_pair_file_name> root@<eth0_ip>
After successfully connecting to your instances, you can now access the BlueCat Equinix Virtual Appliances command-line interface using sudo su - admin.
You can also access the root account using sudo bash.