Connecting to the Stratus Appliance with SSH

Open the console of the Stratus appliance if you need to access the command line of the guest operating system for monitoring or troubleshooting purposes.

You can directly open the console of the Stratus appliance in OpenStack Horizon, but if you prefer to connect with a secure shell (SSH) utility, you need to obtain the SSH keys for the instance and specify them to the SSH utility as described in the following procedure.

To access the Stratus appliance, open an SSH connection to the hostname or IP address of the appliance instance. Log on with the default cloud-user account, unless you modified this username in your CentOS image. (If necessary, locate the value for the default_user entry in the /etc/cloud/cloud.conf file of the image.)

To connect to the console of the Stratus appliance with an SSH utility:

1. Locate the SSH keys that you created when you installed the CentOS operating system.
2. If necessary, transfer the SSH keys to the system where your SSH utility is located. To open the SSH connection, you need only the private key file (not the .pub file).

3. Open an SSH connection and log on to the Stratus appliance (as the cloud-user):

   • From a Linux-based system, execute the ssh command. For example:

     sudo ssh -i /opt/stratus/keys/StratusCloud.key cloud-user@10.10.10.nn

   • From a Windows-based system, connect with an SSH utility such as Putty. See the documentation for your SSH utility for information about specifying the SSH key for the connection. For Putty itself, you must use the pre-generated private key file to create a .ppk file that is compatible with Putty.