This will house some information for operational support for the MSEL OA-PASS instance.

Support Information

This is specific to the JHU Libraries implementation of PASS. If we host other institutions' instances, this will probably be relevant to them as well.

SSH Connection to the Environment

See a member of DRCC Operations if you don't already have a public key that's been uploaded to the Operations bastion server.

• Grab your favorite SSH client (Putty works as well, but command line OpenSSH clients are what is used and tested)
• ssh -l ${USERNAME} ops.pass.jhu.edu

Once on the server you have access to the following services

ENVIRONMENT=(dev|test|demo|prod)

SSH Port Forwarding

Sometimes you just want to use your local workstation as a means of acheiving a goal. With this, you can point your utilities to localhost

OpenSSH cli

• ssh -l ${USERNAME} -L${LOCALPORT}:${TARGET LOCATION} ops.pass.jhu.edu (ex. ssh -L8080:fcrepo-test.pass.local:8080)

This will bind your local port 8080 and tunnel this data over SSH to fcrepo-test.pass.local:8080.

Tips for SSH (OpenSSH cli specific)

• Create a configuration file at ~/.ssh/config and set these values:

  Host pass-test
  Hostname ops.pass.jhu.edu
  User ${USERNAME}
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/pass.pem
  LocalForward 8080 fcrepo-test.pass.local:8080
  LocalForward 9200 elasticsearch-test.pass.cloud.library.jhu.edu:80

  Now you can type ssh pass-test and it'll bind ports 8080 and 9200 and connect.