DIETFORWARDER(1)

NAME
dietForwarder - DIET tool to manage ssh tunnels between DIET components

NAME

dietForwarder - Tool for creating DIET forwarders. Forwarders are special components that serve as proxies and manage ssh tunnels between DIET components in complex networks.

SYNOPSYS

dietForwarder [options] ...

DESCRIPTION

Deploying DIET on heterogeneous networks that are not reachable by means other than ssh tunnels is a delicate task. DIET forwarders are special DIET components that serve as proxies between DIET components by creating ssh tunnels.

dietForwarder is a command to instantiate DIET forwarders. Forwarders simplify the maintenance of ssh tunnels between DIET components, thus improving DIET's scalability and ease of configuration in complex network topologies.

Before starting a DIET forwarder, you must:

•   launch omniNames on the local and remote hosts;

•   launch the remote peer, specifying its name and network configuration only;

•   launch the local peer and give it the remote peer's name, the ssh connection's details, the remote port to use and the 'pass -C' option to create the ssh tunnel.

    [Remark: forwarders must be launched before the DIET hierarchy.]

OPTIONS

--name [name]

    String identifying the forwarder.

--peer-name [name]

    String identifying its peer on the other network.

--ssh-host [host]

    Host hosting the ssh tunnel.

--ssh-login [login]

    Login used to establish the ssh connection (default: current user login).

--ssh-key [/path/to/ssh/key]

    Path to the ssh key (the private one!) used to establish the ssh connection (default: $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa).

--remote-port [port]

    Port the ssh host is listening on.

--remote-host [host]

    Host to which the connection is made by the tunnel (corresponds to ssh options -L and -R).

--nb-retry [nb]

    Number of times that the local forwarder will try to bind itself to the remote forwarder (default: 3).

--peer-ior [IOR]

    Passes the remote forwarder's IOR. By default, the local forwarder will retrieve its peer's IOR.

--tunnel-wait [seconds]

    Set the number of seconds to wait before considering that the tunnel has been created.

EXAMPLE

Here is a simple configuration example:

•   We have two domains: net1 and net2. Forwarders will be launched on hosts fwd.net1 and fwd.net2.

•   There's no link between hosts fwd.net1 and fwd.net2 but users may access fwd.net2 from fwd.net1 using a ssh connection.

•   Let's call the fwd.net1 forwarder Fwd1 and the fwd.net2 forwarder Fwd2.

•   One SeD lives in fwd.net2 while the rest of the DIET hierarchy lives on the net1 domain.

    Command line for launching Fwd1

    fwd.net1$ dietForwarder --name Fwd1 --peer-name Fwd2 \
      --ssh-host fwd.net2 --ssh-login dietUser \
      --ssh-key id rsa net2 --remote-port 50000

    Command line to launch Fwd2

    fwd.net2$ dietForwarder --name Fwd2

RATIONALE

DIET uses CORBA as its communication layer. While it is a flexible and robust middleware, it remains hard to deploy DIET on heterogeneous networks that are not reachable except through ssh tunnels. DIET forwarders help the administrator to configure their grid without manually setting-up ssh tunnels, which is arguably neither simple nor scalable. DIET forwarders make it very easy to configure networks with such topologies.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

  Copyright

(C)2011, GRAAL, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, 46 allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France all right reserved <diet-dev@ens-lyon.fr>

  License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or mod‐ ify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as pub‐ lished by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

AUTHORS

GRAAL INRIA Rhone-Alpes 46 allee d'Italie 69364 Lyon cedex 07, FRANCE Email: <diet-dev@ens-lyon.fr> WWW: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/DIET

SEE ALSO

omniNames(1), DIETAgent(1)

BUGS

On some systems, forwarder rules will not work unless you use IP addresses instead of hostnames.

AUTHOR
haikel.guemar@sysfera.com License: GPLv3

COPYRIGHT
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