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 su…

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 @…

Thanks Braeden for confirming that, much appreciated.

We discussed this during GOOD26, but here is a recap in case someone else is interested as well. At CSC, we have a Compute node shell app that launches tmux on a compute node as an interactive app. Then, the SSH wrapper (OOD_SSH_WRAPPER) does some logic to check whether the SSH target is a compute …

Dear bmcnally-uw , you might consider creating a VS Code interactive app for OOD. Once the connection to your VS Code session is established, you can open the VS Code terminal and work directly on the compute node where VS Code is running. [image] GitHub - OSC/bc_osc_codeserver: Batch…

This is a bit delayed, but thanks Robin for sharing your knowledge and solution with me at GOOD! Thanks also to the other respondents on this thread too. Dzung, I agree that deploying vscode would also be a decent solution, especially given many people are likely to already be using vscode.

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We use a ttyd based app to load bash, screen or tmux (also w/ trzsz) but there have recently been some challenges with it due to changes with basic auth - The ttyd not working in OOD 4.1.1

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