SSH reverse tunnel to monitor and manage remote devices

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Published on 2014-06-02T17:43:26Z Indexed on 2014/06/02 21:32 UTC
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I have a set a distributed set of devices running Ubuntu 12.04 that I am distributing to clients. I would like to manage them remotely. They may not have fixed IPs and potentially might be behind firewalls.

What I am planning to do is have the devices (permanently connected to the net) poll a request URL and based on the response open a reverse tunnel to my server, so that I can access them via that tunnel.

Most of what I read about reverse tunnel over SSH is for single use cases and very little about heavy production usage. Is there some reason for this, security issues? or stability?

Any help would be much obliged.

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