We support multiple clusters thru a single OnDemand instance. In general this works well, but for File Explorer’s “Open in Terminal” menu, the “ssh” target is a constant set by DEFAULT_SSHHOST. For most of our users this is fine. However, if a user is, e.g., compiling software, then which cluster…

@azric right syntax, wrong file. OOD_SSH_HOSTS needs to be set in /etc/ood/config/apps/files/env

That is a really good use case, and I don’t think there is a way to do this right now without modifying the rpm deployed app code. I’ll mark this as a feature request.

I tried adding OOD_SSH_HOSTS="login.ocelote.hpc.arizona.edu:Ocelote,login.elgato.hpc.arizona.edu:ElGato" to /etc/ood/config/apps/shell/env, after commenting out the DEFAULT_SSHHOST entry in that file. While I no longer have a default ssh host, I also don’t have a dropdown for the “>_ Open in Ter…

@rodgers.355 works like a champ!! Thanks, and you can mark this one “fixed”.

Is there any way to add a cluster choice to File Explorer's "Open in terminal Menu"?

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rodgers.355 (Morgan Rodgers) June 7, 2019, 9:14pm 3

An example implementation: https://github.com/OSC/ood-fileexplorer/pull/201.

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