OOD shell/terminal access?

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Hi there, I’m a new OOD admin looking to understand how interactive shell/terminal jobs are handled via OOD. I’m using Grid Engine as my scheduling back-end and am looking for whatever analog there is to qlogin (srun in Slurm, I think). Out of the box it seems like OOD is geared for designing and submitting batch jobs or for launching a full graphical desktop via Interactive Apps → Desktop. Am I missing something here, or is there no ability to launch a shell on a cluster node by default? I’m aware that I can can launch a terminal in various places (e.g Clusters → $cluster Shell Access) but that just connects to whatever my login node is and not a compute node.

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You are correct that the current flow with built-in apps is to launch an interactive desktop and access the terminal from there. That means that it is unlikely OOD will ever include a batch terminal app by default, but that doesn’t mean it is not worth trying to create if you would like it. I know @robinkar developed something like this, so its definitely possible, but I am not sure on the details of his approach.

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Thanks Braeden for confirming that, much appreciated.