ECE Guacamole

Guacamole -- Login Problem

If you are having trouble login into the Guacamole page, it is possible that your password has expired. Passwords are set to expire once a year. The guacamole login does not tell you that your password has expired, it just does not allow you to login!

To fix this, to here here and login with your VT PID/password. Then Edit your account to change your password. There is an oddity with the "Edit" account where you must select your (one and only) account from the drop down list.

Please let me know if something is not working: john.ghra (at) vt.edu.

Guacamole -- A Web Browser Interface to the ECE Linux Machines

Guacamole provides a way of using the Linux machines without having to install any software, you just use your web browser.

• Works from anywhere, on campus or off.
  No needing to use VT's VPN.
• Connections don't die when you close your web browser.
• You can connect to several different computers at the same time and switch between them.
• You can leave long running processes running.
  For example you can start "matlab" then start run a long running script. Close your web browser/laptop. Come back tomorrow, reconnect and pick up where you left off.
• Simple file transfer.
• Connections are secure.
• The full documentation for using Guacamole is here.

What you need to know:

• To login you will use your ECE computer account. If you don't have one, go here and create one.
• When you are connected to a computer you can bring up the "Guacamole Menu" with <CTRL><SHIFT><ALT> key combination. This will allow you to do several things.
  • Disconnect from the current session and connect to a different computer.
  • Transfer files to/from the remote machine.

Problems and Bugs:

If you find something not working, please let me know: john.ghra (at) vt.edu. If you don't let me know of problems, I can't fix them!

Known problems and work arounds:

Connection fails with strange messages.

This seems to happen when several people try to connect at the same time. For now, just try to reconnect, it almost always works the second (or third) time.

Text is a little fuzzy / blurry to read.

Click the <CTRL><SHIFT><ALT> key combination. Scroll all the way to the bottom. Uncheck Automatically fit to browser window.

The initial connection to a machine takes a while.

Just be patient. When you reconnect to a machine, its pretty quick.

There is a copy&paste clipboard between your computer and the remote computer. This does not work for all combinations of (local computer, browser, remote computer).

I will try to post updates about this.

This type of connection is slow and laggy.

Yes. There is probably nothing I can do about that. If you want a more responsive interface, you will probably need to do a native X windows connection.

Pick machine:

• Pick a machine that is not too busy (Load Average).
• If you are trying to reconnect to a machine you used before but you've forgotten which one, look for your login (Logged In).

Machine Name	Load Average (lower is better)	Logged In
Compute Machine 01	0.05	aghari19 angelos GradInfo Jubayer pantea95 pedraml rdehart xavier13 xingye15 zqing6
Compute Machine 02	0.17	angelos marwaneltoukhy pedraml pkmandke sampanna xingye15
Compute Machine 03	2.40	k1ramz marwaneltoukhy sampanna xingye15
Compute Machine 04	0.05	Jubayer marwaneltoukhy nithyaag varshasayee
Compute Machine 05	0.06	k1ramz
Compute Machine 06	0.15	aj10 jli4 junjiew8 rdehart varshasayee
Compute Machine 07	0.14	jli4 junjiew8 xingye15
Compute Machine 08	0.31	jli4 junjiew8 xingye15
Compute Machine 09	0.14	aghari19 aj10 jli4 junjiew8 xingye15
Compute Machine 10	0.05	athanas jli4 junjiew8
Compute Machine 11	0.05	xingye15
Compute Machine 12	0.05	oshears
Compute Machine 13	0.11	jli4 ryanreed
Compute Machine 14	0.05	pkmandke
Compute Machine 15	0.05	jkh
Workstation 1	0.05	jkh Jubayer pantea95 pedraml stankiewiczjs xingye15
Workstation 2	0.07	fariborzlp xingye15
Workstation 3	0.08	fabiha27 k1ramz
Workstation 5	0.18	k1ramz rkkleine xingye15 zqing6
Workstation 6	0.05	jli4 zqing6
Large Memory Machine	2.13	athanas cjearls Jubayer kangjun ldurbeck micsrf minux mwasfy ryanreed sacrain sampanna zhenghh
MPI Head Node (48 node cluster)	0.05	Jubayer ryanreed

Great! Let's get going!

• Remember to use your ECE computer account to login, just click here.