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name: IX server access — network + SSH
description: How to reach ix.azcomputerguru.com (172.16.3.10) — Tailscale-on means it's directly reachable, no separate VPN. SSH KEY AUTH from GURU-5070 now works (verified 2026-06-05); sshpass+password is only the fallback. Also enrolled in GuruRMM (gururmm-agent.service). Full inventory: wiki/systems/ix-server.md.
type: reference
---

## Network reachability

- **Host:** `ix.azcomputerguru.com` / `172.16.3.10` (also `172.16.1.39`)
- **Access:** directly reachable when Tailscale is on. No separate VPN connection required. External `72.194.62.5:22` is firewalled — internal only.
- **Also enrolled in GuruRMM** (`gururmm-agent.service`, binary `/usr/local/bin/gururmm-agent`, config `/etc/gururmm/agent.toml`) — drivable via `/rmm` when SSH isn't handy.

## SSH

- **User:** `root`
- **SSH key auth: WORKS from GURU-5070** (verified 2026-06-05 via system OpenSSH, internal IP, Tailscale up):
  ```bash
  /c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe -o BatchMode=yes root@172.16.3.10 'whmapi1 listaccts'
  ```
- **Password fallback:** vault `infrastructure/ix-server.sops.yaml` (root password). Use sshpass only if key auth ever breaks:
  ```bash
  sshpass -p "$PASSWORD" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no root@172.16.3.10
  ```
- **Account-level (`gurushow`) paths from scripts:** paramiko with `look_for_keys=False, allow_agent=False` (that account's key auth is disabled).

## What's on it
Full systems inventory (host specs, web/mail/DB stack versions, 72 cPanel accounts → domains → disk, ACG subdomain docroots, backup gap) is documented in **`wiki/systems/ix-server.md`** (live SSH inventory 2026-06-05). cPanel 134, CloudLinux 9.7, 64-core Xeon, 4.4 T /home. [[reference_radio_website]] is hosted here.
