Remote hosts

To add a host
To edit a host
To delete a host

To add a host

Select File > Settings, choose Hosts from the left list, and click .

Host name — Name for the remote host profile.

SSH login command — Command for connecting to the host, e.g., ssh user@server.domain.ext. (Use to have Pirana locate the ssh-keygen).

If PuTTY is used, this command will start with “plink”, followed by the username and password for the remote host, and the name or IP address of the host access node (e.g., plink -l smith -pw xxx 10.181.0.1).

Pirana needs passwordless SSH-access to the host, so make sure that an RSA key pair is installed (explained in the “Installing public and private authentication keys” section). If you use PuTTY on Windows, you can also choose to supply the password on the command line instead as follows:

         plink -l username -pw password server.domain.ext 

SSH timeout — Amount of time (in seconds) that SSH should wait for a response from the remote host before returning a timed-out error.

Additional SSH parameters — Other SSH parameters that need to be set.

Remote mount location — Path to the folder on the remote host that is mounted as a local drive, typically /home/username (e.g., /home/smith).

Local mount location — Drive-letter on the local system that corresponds with the remote host path defined in the previous field, such as X: or V:.

Remote location of parallelization files — Remote machine path to the folder where the parallelization files are stored (e.g., /home/smith/parfiles). (Use to download the folder from the remote machine to a local folder or click to navigate and to the folder.)

Remote command before — Commands that need to be executed before connecting to the remote machine (e.g., source /etc/profile).

Grid user name — Username for logging into the grid.

PsN NONMEM versions command — PsN command for locating installed NONMEM versions.

Add profile — Create a profile to use when running on this remote host (see “To create a profile”).

There are individual tabs of settings for workload managers.

Use <name> on this host — When checked, includes this workload manager in the list of available job schedulers when setting up an execution on this Host.

The default values of each tab are from the corresponding workload manager’s Job submitting tab. For descriptions of the settings, refer to the “Job submitting settings” section. By modifying the values, the defaults are overridden, thereby creating customized settings for a particular host.

Use the Defaults button to reload the values from the corresponding workload manager’s Job submitting tab (refer to the “Job Submitting Default Values” table).

To edit a host

Select File > Settings, expand NONMEM > Hosts in the left list, and choose the remote host.

Modify the settings as needed.

To delete a host

Select File > Settings, expand NONMEM > Hosts in the left list, and choose the remote host.

Click at the top to delete the remote host and return to the Add Remote Host page.

Note:    A remote host that has not yet been saved is deleted immediately. Otherwise, the deletion will not occur until the Save and close button is used in the Settings dialog.