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

This looks like it could be a good starting point.  The one difference between bbfetch and my needs is that bbfetch gets the information by connecting from the server to the client.  I need to send the information from the client to the server.

Thanks!

--Chris
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Morgan 
  To: '[email protected]' 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:14 PM
  Subject: RE: {bbd} Alternative Data Transport In Big Brother?


  You might take a look at bbfetch2.1 on 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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  Encounter Collaborative - www.encounter.net 
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    -----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]