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Cascade RDP sessions

Cascade RDP sessions

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viktorn

Dear Support Team and Community Members!

Please, clarify
-Is it possible to make a cascade RDP sessions (RDP-in-RDP) with more than one jump host?

Currently I can create and open a transparent RDP session with only One jump host in the connection path:
LocalHost(Client) -> JumpHost -> TargetServer

So, is it possible to create/open a transparent RDP connection in RDM like this:
LocalHost(Client) -> JumpHost1 -> JumpHost2 -> TargetServer

How to do this in RDM?

(Or share your tricks - How to do such connections (via many Jump hosts) without manually open RDP connection on every Jump host ...)

Thanks in advance,

All Comments (3)

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viktorn

Could someone from Devolutions Team help us?

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Etienne Lord

Hello,

I do not believe we support multiple Jumps in Remote Desktop Manager but I will look into it!

Best regards,

Etienne Lord

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Stéfane Lavergne

Hi @viktorn

Stéfane from the development team.

We currently don't support multi-jump via our jump host mechanism. It's been on your todo list for a very long time now. Unfortunately our current architecture doesn't easily support for multi-jump and changing it is no small feat. I hope to be able to support it one day but at this point it's still only a wish.

If you need multi-jump your best bet is to set up RDM with an XML/SQLite data source on:

  • JumpHost1
    • RDP to JumpHost1 and jump to TargetServer via JumpHost2
  • JumpHost2
    • Jump to JumpHost2 via JumpHost1 and then RDP to TargetServer.


The only difference is the level of logging, as only the first "open/action" will be logged in the centralize data source. The second one will be logged within the local (to the jump host) XML/SQLite. Also note that with both approaches permissions/audits/logs are limited with an XML/SQLite data source.

Best regards,

Stéfane Lavergne