LMS4.1 soft appliance 1st aid

Hello,
Im new with the LMS4.1 soft appliance and got some questions after 1st touch with it:
1. Where can you get the documentation about the very special LMS-appliance-CLI? Is it possible to SSH to the linux-shell directly?
2. What is the default root password?
3. necessary Filesharing (e.g. for csv imports from old system) options:
a) SCP: with pscp from a win-client to LMS I get "cant get vty from remote host ...". Are there working compatibility options for common scp-clients?
b) Is it possible to setup an FTP server on LMS appliance?
c) Has SAMBA been installed, so that it is possible to make CIFS mounts?
(1st workarround = FTP server at the win-client)
4. What means the 1st "Access Denied" message after connecting via SSH and SCP successfuly?
5. Where is mping located?
Thx for hints,
Steffen

Developed a working solution for SCP based file exchange with LMS-Linux-Appliance:
LMS Appliance:
carshell> shell
sysadmin # useradd -g casusers -d /home/scp -s /bin/bash -c "SCP user for file transfer from and to LMS" scp
sysadmin # passwd scp
sysadmin # ...
WinSCP-Settings:
1. create a new profile with the LMS-IP and scp user
2. force SCP as transport. In SSH version-2, SFTP is the standard scp transport. So you will need a combination of version 2 and SCP, because SFTP is not installed at the LMS linux appliance.
The reason for the need of an extra user is: SCP transport needs a shell and carshell is not a proper shell to handle SCP commands beside Default Shell enforcement doesnt work with WinSCP.
3. optional: preset remote dir: /var/adm/CSCOpx/files/rme/dcma/shadow
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