confluent_client.rst

Starting the confetty client

As the root user, running /opt/confluent/bin/confetty will open the confetty prompt :

[root@c910f02c05p03 ~]# /opt/confluent/bin/confetty
/ ->

Creating a non root user

It's recommenteed to create a non root user to use to connect to confetty

1. Create a non-root user on the management node: :

   useradd -m xcat

2. As root, create a non-root user in confetty: :

   /opt/confluent/bin/confetty create users/xcat

3. Set the password for the non-root user: :

   /opt/confluent/bin/confetty set users/xcat password="mynewpassword"
   password="********"

Connecting to a remote server

In order to do remote sessions, keys must first be added to /etc/confluent

• /etc/confluent/privkey.pem - private key
• /etc/confluent/srvcert.pem - server cert

If you want to use the xCAT Keys, you can simple copy them into /etc/confluent :

cp /etc/xcat/cert/server-key.pem /etc/confluent/privkey.pem
cp /etc/xcat/cert/server-cert.pem /etc/confluent/srvcert.pem

The user and password may alternatively be provided via environment variables: :

CONFLUENT_USER=xcat
CONFLUENT_PASSPHRASE="mynewpassword"
export CONFLUENT_USER CONFLUENT_PASSPHRASE

Start confetty, specify the server IP address: :

confetty -s <remote_ip>

If you want to run a confluent command against another host, could set the CONFLUENT_HOST variable: :

CONFLUENT_HOST=<remote_ip>
export CONFLUENT_HOST