The remote client allows you to securely connect to a remote Fuse ESB Enterprise container without having to launch a full Fuse ESB Enterprise container locally.

For example, to quickly connect to a Fuse ESB Enterprise instance running in server mode on the same machine, open a command prompt and run the client[.bat] script (which is located in the InstallDir/bin directory), as follows:

client

More usually, you would provide a hostname, port, username, and password to connect to a remote instance. If you were using the client within a larger script, for example in a test suite, you could append console commands as follows:

client -a 8101 -h hostname -u username -p password shell:info

Alternatively, if you omit the -p option, you will be prompted to enter a password.

For a standalone container, use any valid JAAS user credentials that have admin privileges.

For a container in a fabric, the default username and password is admin and admin.

To display the available options for the client, type:

client --help

Apache Felix Karaf client
  -a [port]     specify the port to connect to
  -h [host]     specify the host to connect to
  -u [user]     specify the user name
  -p [password] specify the password
  --help        shows this help message
  -v            raise verbosity
  -r [attempts] retry connection establishment (up to attempts times)
  -d [delay]    intra-retry delay (defaults to 2 seconds)
  [commands]    commands to run
If no commands are specified, the client will be put in an interactive mode

If you used the remote client to open a remote console, as opposed to using it to pass a command, you will need to disconnect from it. To disconnect from the remote client's console, enter logout or press Ctrl+D at the prompt.

The client will disconnect and exit.