RE: {bbd} Alternative Data Transport In Big Brother?

You might take a look at bbfetch2.1 on www.deadcat.net
<http://www.deadcat.net> 
 
I don't know if it will work for you or not.  It says it uses an ssh
connection initiated by the BB Sever to collect the data from the clients.
 
I haven't tried it myself, so I can't comment on it.
 
-- Tim
 
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Tim Morgan 
Software Engineer 
Encounter Collaborative - www.encounter.net 
[email protected] 
(503) 295-6511 

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Koelbl [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {bbd} Alternative Data Transport In Big Brother?


I'm a sysadmin who has to administer servers that are only accessible via
crappy VPN clients.  As such, a monitoring program like Big Brother is
extremely useful to me by helping me keep an eye on things.  One problem,
however, is transferring the data from a remote location back to my local
BBDISPLAY.  Why would I want to do that?  Because at these locations, we are
not always allowed to have access to a mail server to send notifications
(Hospital security policies).  So here is my question:
 
Has anyone modified big brother to use an alternative communications method
between servers such as ftp or scp?  If so, does this transfer of data come
before or after email notifications of failures occur?
 
I am not yet a big brother developer, but the need for remote monitoring is
become increasingly important.  Manually checking servers at each location
becomes more and more unfeasible with every additional client.  
 
Many thanks for any info.  In the meantime, I'll be digging through the
various code and scripts to see how this modifcation might occur.
 
--Chris
 
Christopher Koelbl
Systems Administrator
eko systems inc.
(703) 849-1477 x50
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>