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

On 23 Apr, Christopher Koelbl wrote:
> 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.

Should be fairly simple to tweak however you want. On the client, the
'bb' program is used to send the data. You could simply replace 'bb'
with whatever you need, for example save the data and arguments to files
that you then ftp over to some more well-connected machine. Then on the
well-connected machine (which can be your bb server) you need a program,
which could be implemented as a cron job or BBEXT script, that reads
those files you deposited and uses the bb command to send the data.


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