# Use Terminal

JFrog Connect’s Terminal tool enables you to connect to your terminal through a web-based SSH. Using Terminal, you can troubleshoot remotely and resolve issues on your edge devices.

## Prerequisites

In order to use Terminal, you need the following:

* At least one online device.
* The following software installed on the device: ssh-server and ssh-client. (The ssh-client is installed by default when you download Connect Agent to the device. You will need to install ssh-server separately.)
* The edge device is online.
* The `root` user enabled.

You do not need to open any ports on the device or the firewall for the terminal to function.

## Open Session

To open a Terminal session, do the following:

1. There are two ways to open a remote terminal session:

   * **From the Terminal Page**: Go to **Remote Tools>Terminal** in the left menu and choose a device from the dropdown list. (This is the list of online devices in the project.) Click **Open Terminal**.

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   * **From the Devices Page**: On the Devices page, click the **More** icon (three dots) in the row of the relevant device, then click **Remote Terminal**.
2. A popup will appear showing the progress of opening your remote terminal session. Enter the username you want to use for connecting to the device and click **Open**. The default username is `root`.

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When your Remote Terminal session is open, you will see a new window with the command-line interface of your Linux terminal. You can start your troubleshooting in this window.

## View Remote Terminal Session History

To view a brief history of the remote control sessions you have had, go to **Remote Tools**/**Terminal** in the left menu.&#x20;

The terminal sessions are listed in order of Close Time. The latest closed sessions are on top, below any open sessions. For each session, the table shows:

* Device name and UUID
* Session Duration
* Close time
* State

If you don’t see the session you are looking for in the table, refresh the page or use the Search to locate the session.

## What’s Next?

Learn how you can access and control your edge device with Connect’s [Port Tunnel](https://docs.connect.jfrog.io/features-new-ui/tools/remote-tools-overview/remote-access) tool.