doc/overview: mention SSH requirement

Mention that SSH access to the exporter is required. Also document how the SSH jump host function can be used with plain SSH. Signed-off-by: Rouven Czerwinski <[email protected]>
Emantor · Mar 25, 2024 · 3ea19de · 3ea19de
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@@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ published as declared in the configuration file.
 This is useful to register externally configured resources such as network
 power switches or serial port servers with a labgrid coordinator.
 
+.. note::
+ Users will require SSH access to the exporter to access services and command
+ line utilities. You also have to ensure that users can access usb devices for
+ i.e. imx-usb-loader. To test a SSH jump to a device over the exporter outside
+ of labgrid, `ssh -J EXPORTER USER@DEVICE` can be used.
+
 .. _overview-client:
 
 Client