[hobbit] Best way to monitor server in a DMZ ? or remote LAN ?

Buchan Milne bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Tue Feb 5 15:19:55 CET 2008


On Tuesday 05 February 2008 16:01:48 linuxmasterjedi at free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I would like to monitor servers inside a DMZ. Since the Hobbit-Clients
> push the information to the server, they are not able reach the LAN Hobbit
> server : communication from the DMZ to the LAN is forbidden...
>
>   What is your experience in that area guys ?


I use msgcache and the pulldata tag, so that the Hobbit server connects to the 
hosts being monitored ...

>   I'm thinking to setup a DMZ Hobbit server. The LAN Hobbit server will
> pull the information from the DMZ Hobbit server. I remember something
> related using bbproxy or NET. Am I right ?
>   What is your experience in that domain again ? (bis)

bbproxy works fine as well (but I don't use it for a DMZ, however for a 2nd 
site that forwards all the data (from clients, it's own bbtest-net, and it's 
own devmon) to the single display that is "monitored" by the monitoring team.

>   Finally, I would like to setup a Hobbit Server in "LAN2", "LAN3" and
> "LAN4" . Those LAN* Hobbit server will monitor servers around them.
>   Will they send information to LAN Hobbit server or the LAN Hobbit server
> will pull the information from LAN* Hobbit servers ?

Either way, depending on how you configure them ... (see above).

>   Thanks by advance for any answers or point of view of my ideas. I'm
> looking for a global view of my issues + tutorial links to setup the right
> things.

Honestly, I don't think this is so complex that a tutorial is required ...

Regards,
Buchan



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