VPS Command and Control · Member docs

IO Coop VPS’s have a system in place to allow you to remotely reboot/shutdown/console your VPS’s.

Access is controlled via the sshkey provided when signing up for the VPS.

ssh -t vps@g1.iocoop.org

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IO Coop VPS command and control
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Commands:
  list         List all available instance.
  console      Attach to the serial console of an instance.
  reboot       Reboot an instance.
  startup      Start an instance.
  shutdown     Shutdown an instance.
  vncconsole   Expose a VNC port to connect to an instance's console.

How to remotely access your VPS graphical desktop using VNC

VNC is a graphical desktop sharing system. With it you can connect to your VPS to diagnose problems when you’ve lost access to it through other means (ssh, web)

Install a VNC client. TightVNC is a good Windows client and RealVNC works on Mac Windows and Linux

Determine what port your VPS is bound to.

ssh -t vps@g0.iocoop.org list

This command will connect to the VPS management system and list out the VPS or VPSs that you have

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Commands:
  list                   List all available instance.
  console <instance>     Attach to the serial console of an instance.
  reboot <instance>      Reboot an instance.
  startup <instance>     Start an instance.
  shutdown <instance>    Shutdown an instance.
  vncconsole <instance>  Expose a VNC port to connect to an instance's console.

user@example.com> list

Instance Name                            State  CPUs   RAM  VNC Port
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myhost.example.com                     running     1  2048  localhost:12345

In this example our VPS is called myhost.example.com and the “VNC Port” is “localhost:12345” however your VPS name and VNC port will be different.

Establish a SSH tunnel between your computer and the VPS management system over the VNC port.
```
ssh -t -L 12345:localhost:12345 vps@g0.iocoop.org vncconsole myhost.example.com
```
- With this command we’re creating a tunnel between port 12345 on our host and port 12345 on the VPS management system. This will allow us to connect our VNC client to the VPS management system
Run your VNC client
Connect to “localhost:12345” in your VNC client
- Here is what it would look like in TightVNC. In this image the VNC port is 5901.
- Here is what it would look like in RealVNC. In this image the VNC port is 10.

How to remotely access your VPS console

You can access your VPS host over serial console by running

ssh -t vps@g1.iocoop.org console myhost.example.com

Once you do, you’ll get back this response

INFO: Original command
Console for: 'myhost.example.com'
  Use ^] to disconnect
  (You might need to press enter to wake up the getty on your instance)
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At this point, hit the enter key to get a prompt from your host and then login with your user.