OOD Service Deprecation
The OOD environment is being replaced by ARE (Australian Research Environment). Please migrate your workload to ARE. For more information, see the ARE User Guide.
Once you have "an app" running on an OOD node (e.g., VDI session, JupyterLab), you can then log into that node via SSH from your desktop (if needed). Your login will be bound by the same system resource that you configured as part of the spinning up of the app. There are two different methods to connect to this node via your SSH client:
Method 1. Through the web interface
- Go to the My Interactive Sessions tab on the OOD dashboard
- Find the job you need to access
- Click the button next to the Host: field in the card, and an ssh session to that node will open in a new browser tab
Method 2. Native ssh connection
You can connect via an ssh client on your computer. You need to use the -J
option to ssh to jump via our gateway box, e.g.:
ssh -J abc123@ood-vnc.nci.org.au abc123@ood-vnXX
Where abc123 is replaced with your NCI login, and the node name is from the Host field in the card in the "My Interactive Sessions" tab (see above).
Note: ssh will ask for your password twice.
Alternatively, you can also configure this using the ProxyJump option in your ssh configuration ($HOME/.ssh/config for Mac and Linux computers), e.g.:
host !ood-vnc* ood-vn* ood-n*
ProxyJump ood-vnc.nci.org.au
You can simplify the command further by setting a default username to use for OOD by adding the User option in your ssh configuration, e.g.:
host ood-*
User abc123
Where abc123 is replaced with your NCI login