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Hosts, Alias, Group and Jump Host

Nex Terminal can scale with the needs of your team. It can handle setups from a home lab with a handful of IOT devices to a data center with thousands of pieces of infrastructure. Information management and navigation are much easier if you utilize the below-mentioned elements.

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.