---
title: "Enabling and Disabling Teleport"
slug: "enabling-and-disabling-teleport"
description: "VAST Data uses Teleport—a self-hosted, third-party application—to provide temporary, on-demand remote access to customer clusters."
updated: 2026-10-27T19:37:32Z
published: 2026-10-28T02:20:38Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/enabling-and-disabling-teleport"
---

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# Enabling and Disabling Teleport

Teleport is an **opt-in** solution: customers can enable or disable it at any time to control when VAST has access to the environment.

## Check Current Teleport Status

To check if Teleport is currently enabled and running, perform the following from a shell on any CNode in the cluster.

```plaintext
clush -qSBa "sudo systemctl is-enabled teleport && systemctl is-active teleport"
```

- Nodes with Teleport installed will report whether or not the service is enabled and active.
- Nodes without Teleport installed will report `Failed to get unit file state for teleport.service: No such file or directory`.

## Enable Teleport

To enable Teleport, perform the following from a shell on any Cnode on the cluster.

```plaintext
clush -a "sudo systemctl enable --now teleport" 2>/dev/null
```

No output is expected from this command.

## Disable Teleport

To disable Teleport, perform the following from a shell on any Cnode on the cluster.

```plaintext
clush -a "sudo systemctl disable --now teleport" 2>/dev/null
```

No output is expected from this command.

Stateless VAST Compute Node; runs all VAST services. Note: CNode can refer to the physical server or the VAST container acting in the CNode role.