Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases - Manual (Page 155)

ATTACHING TO A REMOTE ION ACCELERATOR APPLIANCE
You can run the CLI on a workstation or laptop and then attach it to a remote ION Accelerator
system. This is done with an SSH tunnel.
Task Example Description
1. Make an environment.
mkdir remote
cd remote
Creates an environment in the Fikon
tree, and changes into that
environment. The environment is now
ready to accept settings.
2. Set up a tunnel.
url=ssh://<ip address>
Tells the CLI that it should use the
ssh
protocol to connect to a remote
ION system at the given IP address.
3. Set up authentication
user=<user>
password=<password>
The user name is often "admin" in a
standard ION setup. When done in this
way, the settings are saved into the
user's environment tree. You can also
use a different form of the url property.
ssh://user:password@<ip address>
That format will not require an
additional user/pass property.
4. Test the connection
drives
This checks to see if an SSH tunnel
can be formed to the target node. If so,
the drives commands is executed and
the results are displayed.
5. Save the connection
save
This tells Fikon to save its environment
tree into ~/.fikon/tree.xml, so it will be
available the next time you start up.
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