Access to your instance is controlled through several different methods:
- Firewall of the instance
- Security list of the subnet to which the instance belongs
- VNIC-specific Network Security Groups
Note that if both, a security list and a Network Security Group are assigned to a VNIC, the rules of both are combined. Please refer to the Oracle documentation for details.
With the default subnet security list, and without custom Network Security Groups installed, you can, for example, use SSH from the command-line or from a tool such as PuTTY to access the command-line of the sshuser user on the Charon-SSP instance. If you select your instance in the instance list and then click on the name, you will see details about your instance including its public IP address as shown below.
To connect to the instance, you need the private key corresponding to the public key uploaded during the launch of the instance.
The file permissions of the private key file must be set such that the file is only readable by the user.
There are several ways to connect to your Charon-SSP cloud instance using this basic SSH protocol access. Some of them are described in the following sections below: