Sorry people i had a session open when was doing final testing which was 
hidden behind other windows.

Correction to below is you may get an error when trying to ssh -L 
13722:localhost:13722 etc when sshing to the backup server itself. I 
seemed to get some 'channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: 
open failed' error.

It does work when sshing to another machine and using the redirect as 
below as i mentioned in the email. This works and has saved me a lot of 
grief.

ssh -L 13722:<ip of backup server>:13722 -L 13724:<ip of backup 
server>:13724 -C <ip of machine you can ssh to and has access to backup 
server without the port restrictions from your admin laptop or wherever>

Thanks


Dave Markham wrote:

> Not sure if this is useful to anyone but i got this working today so 
> am excited and thought someone may benefit.
>
> I admin things remotely and need to admin various netbackup 
> installations. I have ssh access through to the backup servers but 
> very rarely am allowed the Java gui ports open so i can use the client 
> software installed on my laptop.
>
> What i have been trying to do is to redirect this all through ssh to i 
> can point my gui to localhost and it forward requests through to the 
> remote java gui on the backup server and all come up with much faster 
> speed.
>
> If you normally run an Xclient and ssh -X -C user@backupserver  and 
> run /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/jnbSA & then this will be for you as that 
> method is beyond slow in my experience.
>
> Ok, all i have had to do is this from my laptop.
>
> ssh -L 13722:localhost:13722 -L 13724:localhost:13724  <ip of backup 
> server>
>
> Then create a hosts entry on my laptop for 127.0.0.1   <name of backup 
> server>
>
> Then in the gui i just say server is <name of backup server> ( which 
> is really localhost ) and it forwards things through and works.
>
> You could also tunnel to a machine which doesnt have any restrictions 
> between that and the backup server if you cant get to the backup 
> server directly.
>
> ssh -L 13722:<ip of backup server>:13722 -L 13724:<ip of backup 
> server>:13724  <machine have access to>
>
>
> Hope this helps people admin better :)
>
> D
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