[Xymon] Client data?

Larry Barber lebarber at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 23:13:06 CET 2012


Resending to "xymon at xymon.com". That "reply" does not respond to the list
is kind of broken.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "client data" is a copy of the information that the client sends the
> Xymon server. Most of it will be displayed in the various client test
> display pages for the host, so there is little point in trying to hide it.
> Security by obscurity never works. Also, it can be very handy to have this
> data available.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:36 PM, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Using Xymon 4.3.7 I see that most (possibly all) of the services being
>> monitored for a host contain a link in the web page saying 'Client data
>> available'.
>>
>> By clicking on the link I can see that it shows some info about the
>> host, but my question is why? What is this link for?
>>
>> As far as I can tell there is no way to disable the link from appearing.
>> Is that correct? It may be that we would prefer not having the link
>> present, so preventing users from seeing info about the host itself.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John.
>>
>> --
>> John Horne, Plymouth University, UK
>> Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287    Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001
>>
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