NAME

hpct-rtunnel — HiPerConTracer Reverse Tunnel

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

hpct-rtunnel is the HiPerConTracer remote tunnel script. It establishes an SSH tunnel from a node to a collected, allowing SSH forwarding to the node from port 10000+NodeID on the collector. It is intended to be used with the hpct-rtunnel service, to automatically establish the tunnel from a node with NAT'ed IP address for remote maintenance.

ARGUMENTS

The following arguments may be provided:

-h | --help

Prints command help.

-q | --quiet

Turns off status output.

-v | --verbose

Turns on status output.

-N | --nodeid -node_id

Sets the node ID, a number from 1 to 9999.

-R remote_location | --remote remote_location

Sets the remote data directory on the collector. Default: /var/hipercontracer/data.

-R | --collector -collector

Sets the remote data location for RSync. Format: HOST:DIRECTORY.

-K ssh_private_key_file | --key ssh_private_key_file

Sets the SSH private key file used for authentication. Default: /var/hipercontracer/ssh/id_ed25519.

-H ssh_known_hosts_file | --known-hosts ssh_known_hosts_file

Sets the SSH known hosts file. Default: /var/hipercontracer/ssh/known_hosts.

EXAMPLES

sudo -u hipercontracer hpct-rtunnel -N 1000 -C 10.44.35.16 --key /var/hipercontracer/ssh/id_ed25519 --known-hosts /var/hipercontracer/ssh/known_hosts

 

sudo -u hipercontracer hpct-rtunnel -N 1 -C 10.44.35.16 --key /var/hipercontracer/ssh/id_ed25519 --known-hosts /var/hipercontracer/ssh/known_hosts

 

AUTHORS

Thomas Dreibholz
https://www.simula.no/people/dreibh
mailto://dreibh@simula.no