Use Terminal

JFrog Connect makes it easy to troubleshoot and maintain devices by using remote support tools. This page describes how to use Terminal.

JFrog Connect’s Terminal tool enables you to connect to your Linux 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:

• The following software installed on the device: ssh-server and ssh-client.

• 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. In the left navigation pane, go to Devices. In the Devices table, click the three dots on the far right side of the relevant device and choose Remote Terminal.

Alternatively, you can go to Terminal in the left menu and choose a device from the dropdown list. Click Open Session.

1. A panel will appear showing the progress of opening your remote terminal session. A timer, counting down, also appears on the Connect button. Before the timer finishes (and before all the tiles turn green), enter the username you want to use for connecting to the device and click Connect. The default username is root.

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. The sessions are listed in order of device name. 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, 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 tool.