[hobbit] Client port question

[Henrik Størner]

In <F45059D23B83CB4BAF7528BFAD12142507A5C00F at vcommail1.voicecom.com> "Cooper, Ken" <Ken.Cooper at Intelliverse.com> writes:

>I have been asked to monitor a web server in our DMZ; I was able to load
>and start the client but am only displaying the ping test; the network
>engineer asked which ports I needed opened to allow the client to pass
>data to the host.

>I can not find that information, I have looked in the man pages and the
>hobbit monitor doc no luck.

I've just added this to README.CLIENT:


Firewall issues
===============
The client must be able to connect to the Hobbit server on
TCP port 1984 (or whatever your BBPORT setting is). Note that
the client initiates the connection, so it is an outbound
connection from the client to the Hobbit server.

If the client cannot make an outbound connection (e.g. for
servers in a DMZ network), then you can reverse the direction
of the connection by using the "msgcache" program on the
client, and "hobbitfetch" on the Hobbit server (see their
man-pages for details on setting it up). In such a setup it is
the Hobbit server that connects to the client.



Regards,
Henrik