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- There is no need to manually specify port number mapping for each ecflow server
- You can use original host names in the ecFlow servers connection settigs, instead of 'localhost'
- You are not limited to a single logserver; there is also no need to modify /etc/hosts file.
The SOCKS proxy can tunnel all network traffic from your ecflow_ui to the servers running inside the Centre:
- ecflow_ui ↔ ECMWF ecFlow servers
- ecflow_ui ↔ ECMWF ecFlow logservers
- ecflow_ui ↔ ECMWF DNS servers
However, to connect with SOCKS proxy, the client application (ecflow_ui) must be able to speak SOCKS protocol. We will show how to enable it for ecflow_ui.
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