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Now you will connect your ecflow_ui to your local SSH port forwarding session. Open and edit ecflow servers connection settings (launch ecflow_ui → Servers→ Manage Servers ...). Make sure to use "localhost" in the "Host" fields, not the actual ECMWF hostnames. The local SSH session will securely forward your connections to the remote SSH server running inside ECMWF on machine1 and from there to the Centre's ecFlow servers.
Redirect logserver requests to localhost
Your local ecflow_ui cannot directly access logservers running at the Centre. In Section 2.1.1 we have created a tunnel also established port forwarding for logserver traffic. In order to send the the log requests from the local ecflow_ui to the local tunnel entrance, you need to add "127.0.0.1 logserver" alias in /etc/hosts on your laptop (replace "logserver" with an actual ECMWF logserver name).
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