Using the Reverse Connect feature, you can run the TotalView UI on a front-end node to debug a job executing on compute nodes.

The basic process is to embed the tvconnect command in a batch script; when the batch job runs, the  tvconnect process connects with the TotalView client to start the debugger server process on the batch node. The TotalView client would typically run on a front-end node, where the application is built and batch jobs are submitted,