How do I access Managed Device console ports via Lighthouse?

Providing secure remote access to serial and USB ports of connected Managed Devices is a key feature of Opengear Nodes. Lighthouse additionally provides central access to Managed Device consoles across to all enrolled Nodes via the Console Gateway feature.

Console Gateway has many benefits, including:

• A single point for all console access simplifies security, authentication and routing policy
• Lighthouse VPN enables access to console ports behind firewalls, or when a Node has failed over to a private cellular network
• Convenient and consistent access conventions vs. searching through site manifests and IP address lists to locate a console
• Metadata Tags and Smart Group searches group Nodes region, operational group, etc.

Console Gateway CLI

SSH to Lighthouse and login using one of these usernames:

• username:serial – select a node, then console port to connect to
• username:node_name – on the specified node, select a console port to connect to
• username:node_name:port_label – connect directly to the specified console port on the specified node
• username:port_label – connect directly to the first console port matching the specific label, across all nodes (most useful when unique console port labels have been set)

For example:

ssh username:node_name:[e-mail]

Console Gateway Web UI

• Login to the Lighthouse Web UI
• Click Manage -> Nodes -> Console Gateway
• Locate the Managed Device Console under Access Console Ports
• Click Web Terminal to start an in browser HTML5 Terminal
• Otherwise, if your system is configured with an ssh:// handler (for example SecureCRT), click SSH to launch