Session,Hosts, Alias, Group and Jump Host

Nex Terminal is highly convenient and efficient when managing a large number of servers. Familiarizing yourself with several concepts first can help you better manage multiple servers and improve the efficiency of operational maintenance and production.

Session

Each entered host will be added to the session list when its SSH connection is opened. The session list displays the hosts you've recently operated on. When not in use, you can delete a host from the session list to release SSH connection resources

Hosts

Nex Terminal is built around the concept of a host, which represents a remote machine. This remote machine can be accessed via several protocols like SSH, SFTP

Alias

Alias parameter for easier host identification if you have a lot of hosts

Group

Groups allow bundling together of hosts that either belong to the same environment, like development or production or could be bundled by the type, like database cluster nodes. Groups support multiple levels of the hierarchy to maintain thousands of hosts easily.

Jump Host

When you need remote access to company networks and machines, a jump host can be used to securely connect to those servers. Nex Terminal also support jump host ,To use jump host,plese follow below steps:

1. Create a connection to jump host,make sure this connection successful

2. Create a Connection to the Destination Host via Jump Host:

   1. In the sheet of create new host, input the connection info of the destination host, select the jump host that can reach the destination.
   2. If the destination host requires multiple jumps (a chain of jump hosts) to be reached, you need to add each intermediate jump host in the sequence to successfully establish the connection.

Follow SSH Path

This refers to automatically navigating to the current terminal directory when opening the file manager. For the first - time use, it needs to be configured as per the instructions. You can enable or disable this feature in the host management details.