Click the Create button to create a new Endpoint, or select an existing Endpoint and click the Edit button to edit an existing endpoint. Enter the required fields as defined in the table below.
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See Endpoint Defaults to setup default values for new Endpoints to save time. |
Field Name | Required | Description |
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Endpoint Name | Yes | The name of the Endpoint. |
Description | No | An optional description for the Endpoint. |
Active | Yes | Whether or not the endpoint is active in the system. Defaults to "Yes". |
Connection Type | Yes | The connection type used for connection to the Endpoint. Currently SSH and localhost are supported. |
OS Type | Yes | The operating system of the Endpoint. Unix and Windows are the supported types. For Microsoft Windows, must have Cygwin installed, along with the openssh package. See the Cygwin Installation Guide for more information. |
Endpoint Address | Yes | The DNS name or IP address of the Endpoint. |
Port | Yes | The SSH port of the Endpoint (typically port 22). |
User Name | Yes | The user account on the Endpoint to connect with. All executions via this endpoint will run as this user. |
Password | No | The password for the User Name. Either password or Private Key File is required. |
Private Key File | No | Fully-qualified path of the SSH private key file. Either Private Key File or Password is required. ~ is not supported here. |
Passphrase | No | An optional passphrase used when the private key was generated. Only valid if a Private Key File is specified. |
Base Directory | Yes | A working directory on the Endpoint used by FlexDeploy. ~ is not supported here. For example, /app/flexdeploy. If you have two FlexDeploy installations that may connect to same Endpoint, you must use unique folders for both FlexDeploy Servers. In most cases, separate FlexDeploy is installed to perform testing of FlexDeploy patches, which may connect to same Endpoint, in which case you can use different folder like /app/flexdeploytest. |
Group | No | An optional group identifier which can be useful when searching for Endpoints. |
Subgroup | No | An optional subgroup identifier which can be useful when searching for Endpoints. |
JDK Home | Yes | The JDK Home directory on the Endpoint. For example, /usr/java. FlexDeploy will look for /bin/java under specified JDK Home folder. |
Optionally, click the Test Connection button to validate that the FlexDeploy server can connect to the configured Endpoint.
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It is typical to use the default file name and location to store the private key (which is in the .ssh subfolder of the user's home directory). You can optionally secure the private key file with a passphrase. It is an SSH requirement that the private key be readable only by its owner (e.g. oracle in the example above). So you must change the permissions accordingly (e.g. chmod 600 /home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa). You will receive an error at connection time similar to the following if you omit this step.
Permissions 0777 for '/home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
The /home/oracle/.ssh folder on the endpoint must have drw------- permissions (eg. chmod 700 /home/oracle/.ssh)
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We must now copy the contents of the public key to each endpoint host. This step can be performed manually by copying manually or using FlexDeploy UI. To save time and avoid errors, use Upload Public Key button on FlexDeploy UI for specific Endpoint.
In order to copy public key manually copy the contents of the public key file on the FlexDeploy server and appending append it to the end of the following file on the endpoint:
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