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This guide walks through the first-run flow in Luumen: completing onboarding, adding a host, opening a session, and trying LuumenAI. By the end you’ll have an active terminal and know how to use LuumenAI with live server context.

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Before you start

Make sure you have:
  • Luumen installed and signed in. See Installing Luumen.
  • A host you can reach over SSH or WinRM, including its hostname or IP.
  • Credentials for that host — either a username/password or a username/SSH key.

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Get connected

1

Complete onboarding

When you sign in for the first time, a short onboarding flow walks through your account preferences. You’ll be taken to the Add your first host screen.
2

Add your first host

The Add your first host screen in Luumen with a field for hostname or IP address
On the Add your first host screen, enter the following:
The Connection details screen in Luumen showing display name, connection type, port, and credential fields
  1. Hostname or IP address — for example, prod-web-01.example.com or 10.0.1.42.
  2. Connection type — choose SSH (Linux) or WinRM (Windows).
  3. Credentials — either:
    • Password — enter username and password.
    • SSH key — enter username, then upload or paste your private key. Luumen stores the key securely in the cloud so you can use it from any device.
If you use SSH keys, set them up once in Luumen and they’ll be available across every device you sign in on.
3

Connect to the host

Click Connect. Luumen opens your terminal as a widget in the current tab. The AI Chat widget opens alongside it automatically, ready to help with the host you’re connected to.
An open Luumen session with a terminal widget and the LuumenAI chat panel alongside it
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Try LuumenAI

With the session open, ask LuumenAI a question about the host like:
Why is memory usage so high on this server?
LuumenAI answering a question about memory usage and proposing a command to run on the host
LuumenAI reads the live state of the host and answers based on what it actually finds — not generic advice. Try a few questions to get a feel for how it handles real environment context.
LuumenAI’s context is scoped to the host you’re currently connected to. Switch to a different host and it answers about that one instead.

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What to try next

Now that you’ve got a connection working, a few useful follow-ups:
  • Ask harder questions. “What’s the current disk usage on this server?” “Are there any failing services right now?” “Has this server been patched recently?”
  • Approve a remediation command. When LuumenAI proposes a fix, read its explanation and approve it to run on the host.
  • Add more hosts. From the Hosts area, add the rest of the servers you work with. SSH keys carry over automatically.
  • Try a Skill. Skills turn runbooks into reusable AI procedures. If your team already has SOPs, those are natural candidates.

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Need help?

  • Browse the Luumen help center for articles on connecting, billing, and team management.
  • Running a Luumen-managed agent across a fleet for scheduled compliance scans, SAP monitoring, or integrations is part of Luumen Enterprise.