remote farm machine setup

Hi @mahender

What operating system are you using? Windows or Linux?

Could you try to run quartus_dse --help in the command prompt?

It will print out the following online help related to ssh:

SSH Example:

SSH Prerequisites:

Before running an ssh remote compilation, be sure you can ssh to

the remote host without having to enter a password or private

key passphrase. Check the following:

1. Confirm the public ssh key pair that corresponds to

the private ssh key you want to use is appended to the

user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file on the remote host.

2. Windows PuTTY users (skip if connecting from Linux):

PuTTY uses a different ssh key file format called *.ppk.

A Linux ssh private key (id_rsa) file needs to be converted

to the *.ppk format using puttygen.

Run puttygen and click on its Conversions->Import key menu option.

Then press "Save private key" to enter a filename for the ppk file.

3. Run the ssh key agent and register the private ssh key

with the key agent program. This is a one-time setup to decrypt

private ssh keys and make them accessible to the ssh client.

Note: This step needs to be repeated every time the machine is rebooted.

Linux example adding private key to key agent:

> ssh-add <path to private ssh key>

Windows PuTTY example adding private key to key agent:

> pageant <path to private ssh key>.ppk

4. Remote connect to host and confirm connection can

be completed without having to enter password or passphrase.

Linux:

> ssh -i <private ssh key file> -l <user name> hostname

Windows PuTTY:

> plink -i <private key *.ppk file> -l <user name> hostname

Linux SSH Example 1: Launch an ssh Remote Compilation To a Remote Linux Host.

> quartus_dse --launcher ssh --num-seeds 2

--ssh-farm-args='hostname=machine`private_key=/data/abc/pkey`quartus_rootdir=/tools/acds/quartus/14.1/'

one_reg

Windows SSH Example 2a: Using PuTTY's ssh Client to Launch

an ssh Remote Compilation to a Remote Linux Host:

Start the PuTTY ssh key agent

> pageant c:\mykeys\my_pkey.ppk

The path to plink.exe and the private key

should use the '/' character and can not contain any spaces.

The ssh-farm-args arguments should be on one line.

It is split for readability here.

> quartus_dse --num-seeds 2 --launcher ssh

--ssh-farm-args=ssh_client=c:/bin/plink.exe`

hostname=machine`

private_key=c:/mykeys/my_pkey.ppk`

quartus_rootdir=/tools/acds/quartus`

local_remote_path_map=S:\;/`

farm_os=linux one_reg

Windows SSH Example 2b: Windows Local Host Using PuTTY's plink Client to

Launch to Windows Running a Cygwin sshd Server:

Paths that are to be used by the remote host need to

use /cygdrive/. References to the shared S:\ path are

mapped to /cygdrive/s on the remote Windows host.

> pageant c:\mykeys\my_pkey.ppk

> quartus_dse --launcher ssh

--ssh-farm-args=farm_os=windows`

hostname=machine`

iwd=/cygdrive/c/build`

private_key=c:/mykeys/my_pkey.ppk`

quartus_rootdir=/cygdrive/c/acds/quartus`

ssh_client=c:/bin/plink`

local_remote_path_map=S:\;/cygdrive/s/ one_reg

I have yet to receive any response from you to the previous question/reply/answer that I have provided but I believed that I have answered your question.
With that, I will now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you.

Best Regards,
Richard Tan

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