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SSH Tunnel Thread Activity Log

Demonstrates the tunnel-log properties KeepTunnelLog, TunnelLog, and TunnelLogPath, which record the activity of the SSH tunnel and client-manager threads.

Note: The log paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used.

Background: This is the counterpart to the accept log, covering the SSH side rather than the listener: the tunnel and client-manager threads that actually move data. As with the accept log, KeepTunnelLog enables the in-memory TunnelLog while TunnelLogPath writes a separate file. Together the two logs let you localize a problem to either the accepting side or the forwarding side.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

'  Demonstrates the SshTunnel tunnel-log properties KeepTunnelLog, TunnelLog, and TunnelLogPath.
'  
'  These log the activity of the SSH tunnel and client-manager threads.

set tunnel = CreateObject("Chilkat.SshTunnel")

'  Retain the SSH tunnel-thread activity in memory so it can be read from the TunnelLog property.
tunnel.KeepTunnelLog = 1

'  Optionally also write the tunnel-thread activity to a file (separate from the in-memory log).
tunnel.TunnelLogPath = "qa_output/tunnel.log"

tunnel.DestHostname = "db.internal.example.com"
tunnel.DestPort = 5432

sshPort = 22
success = tunnel.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
'  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
password = "mySshPassword"

success = tunnel.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

listenPort = 1080
success = tunnel.BeginAccepting(listenPort)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  ... clients transfer data through the tunnel ...

'  Read the accumulated in-memory tunnel log.
outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.TunnelLog)

waitForThreadExit = 1
success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(waitForThreadExit)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If


outFile.Close