The hosts list
Click All hosts at the top of the sidebar to open the list. Each row shows the host’s status, label,user@host address, up to 3 tags, live CPU and memory (when a monitoring agent reports), and when you last connected.
Use the views at the top to narrow the list:
Type in Filter by name, host, tag to match a host’s label, address, username, or tags. Click Display to change how the list is built:
- Grouping: Group lists hosts under their groups, with ungrouped hosts under No group. None shows one flat list.
- Ordering: Last connected, Date added, or Name.
- Filter: pick one or more groups or tags.
The sidebar lists the same hosts under Hosts, with groups shown as folders. A dot shows whether the host has a connected session. Clicking a host in the sidebar opens its detail page.
Add a host
1
Open Add host
Click New host in the hosts list header, or the + button next to Hosts in the sidebar. You can also press
⌘N (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+N (Windows and Linux), or choose Create host in the command palette.2
Fill in the connection
3
Choose how to authenticate
Pick one of the Authentication options. See Authentication below.
4
Organize it (optional)
Add the host to one or more Groups, type Tags (press
Enter or , after each), and pick a jump host under Connect via if the server is behind a bastion.5
Save
Click Add host. The credential is encrypted on this device before it is stored or synced. Termique opens the new host’s detail page.
On the Free plan, 3 hosts sync to your other devices. See Local hosts and sync and Plans.
Authentication
The Authentication control has three options:
A pasted private key is checked as you type. When you save, Termique imports it into SSH keys as
<label> key, encrypted, and binds the host to it. Other hosts can then use the same key.
If you have no stored keys yet, the Stored SSH key option offers Go to SSH keys.
Jump hosts
Use Connect via to reach a server that only accepts connections from a bastion. Pick any saved host as the jump host, or leave it at None (direct connection).- The jump host can have its own Connect via, so you can chain hops. A chain can be up to 8 hops long.
- Termique leaves out any host that would create a loop.
- Each hop authenticates with that host’s own saved credential.
- Terminal sessions, SFTP, and port forwards all go through the chain.
Connect
To open a session, do any of the following:- Click Connect on a row in the hosts list, or select the row and press
Enter. - Right-click a host and select Connect.
- Click Open session on the host’s detail page.
- Open the command palette (
⌘KorCtrl+K) and pick the host under Quick connect.
Host detail
Click a host in the sidebar, double-click it in the list, or select Details from its context menu.
The side panel shows the host’s status, groups, tags, address, port, user, authentication, jump host, detected system, sharing, command log state, monitoring agent state, and when it was last connected. It also has Copy connection string, Duplicate, and Delete host.
Startup snippet
Under Overview, pick a snippet in Startup snippet to run it as soon as a session to this host connects, e.g. to attach to atmux session. The choice is stored on this device only.
Edit a host
Click Edit host (the pencil) on the detail page, or right-click the host and select Edit. The Edit host sheet has the same fields as Add host.- Leave the password blank, or the key picker empty, to keep the current credential.
- Switching from a key to Password requires a new password.
Duplicate a host
Right-click a host and select Duplicate, or click Duplicate on its detail page. The copy is named<label> (copy) and gets the same address, user, tags, and credential. Group membership and the jump host are not copied.
Delete a host
Right-click a host and select Delete, or click Delete host on its detail page. Confirm in the dialog. This removes the host and its saved credential. Groups that contained it are not deleted.Host key and address checks
The first time you connect to a host, Termique saves the server’s host key. Later connections must present the same key. If the key changes, the session shows Host key changed - connection blocked and sends nothing. This happens when a server is rebuilt, but it is also what an intercepted connection looks like. Compare the fingerprint shown with the server’s own key:Tags
Tags are free-form labels on a host, e.g.production, aws, us-east-1. Termique stores them in lowercase. Use them to filter the hosts list, through Filter by name, host, tag or Display > Filter.
Local hosts and sync
On the Free plan, 3 of your hosts sync to your other devices. You can add as many more as you like. They stay on this computer only, with their credentials and port forwards.- The hosts list header shows Sync n/3. Click it to see which hosts are Synced and which are On this computer, and to Sync or Swap them.
- Right-click a local host and select Sync to other devices. If all sync slots are in use, Termique asks which synced host to swap out.
- Monitoring, sharing, and command logging work only on synced hosts.
- Local hosts are not backed up. In the Sync dialog, click Export to save them to a file encrypted with your account key, and Import to restore them on another computer signed in to the same account.