<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Henry,<div><br><div><div>On 13 Jun 2014, at 18:41, Steinhauer, Henry -FS <<a href="mailto:hsteinhauer@fs.fed.us">hsteinhauer@fs.fed.us</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>(…)</div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3 - I had some questions also about the msgcache.c process. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3a. - Is this something that can run on a Windows system? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not to my knowledge — even if there were I would try to avoid it for maintenance und performance reasons.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3b. - Or should we have a Unix system in our Windows sub-net to collect the Windows Client information to pass onto a general server? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You did not outline your network topology / firewalling setup. As you consider using msgcache I assume that your Windows machines cannot access the Xymon server.</div><div>What I have done similar situations</div><div><br></div><div>- have a unix box with xymonproxy running (this requires installing the sever package but everything of the xymon server is disabled and xymonproxy enabled)</div><div><div>- all (windows) systems report to the xymonproxy (as it that were the xymon server)</div><div>- if the unix box can directly access your xymon server you could let xymonproxy send all messages to directly</div></div><div>- if no direct connection is possible (firewall / security policy, …) you can combine the above with the `ssh-tunnel` extension by Padraig Lennon.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For this setup have published an article: <a href="http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/combine-ssh-tunnel-with-xymonproxy/">http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/combine-ssh-tunnel-with-xymonproxy/</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(that also links to the original and my patched ssh-tunnel)</div><div><br></div><div>All the best</div><div>Thomas</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3c. - What have others done?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This is a great collection system. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks for any guidance.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Henry<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Henry Steinhauer ITIL v3 / Glacier Technologies, LLC<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">USDA Forest Service / Integration Lab Project<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:hsteinhauer@fs.fed.us" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">hsteinhauer@fs.fed.us</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">(505) 750-4672 (google voice)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><br><br><br><br>This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. 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