Re: Without gkrellmd after install on Solaris

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:17:39 +0800
Henry Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have another question:
> 
> how to setup / start gkrellmd server, so that gkrellm client can monitor 
> remote machine? Is there a detailed step on this?
> 
> I noticed there is a webpage 
> http://www.stearns.org/doc/network-monitoring.v0.1.1.html, is it a 
> standard process to do so?

If you want to run over a secure connection, that guide is a good
one.  But it's a lot simpler if you don't care about using a SSL connection,
for example, see:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gkrellm

By setting stuff in the gkrellmd.conf file you can have security by limiting connections
to allowed clients by specifying "allow-host" lines.  It's just that without SSL the data
transmitted will be plain text.  It's a matter of if you care about that.  You can take a
look at the data being transmitted by running the client with this debug flag:

   $ gkrellm -s servermachine -d 0x1000

For example, part of the data transmitted is the IP:port number of machines connecting
to your server (but this can be disabled if you don't want to use the inet monitor).

However you do it, you need to be sure that gkrellmd is set up to start on the server
machine before you start gkrellm on the client.

Bill

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