[Xymon] Monitoring Remote Sites

[Jonathan Bishop]

Thank you all for the suggestions. Much appreciated.

Regards,
Jon B.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Apr 3, 2013 10:33 PM, "Jeremy Laidman" <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 4 April 2013 12:55, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> You can do various VPN type things, such as using stunnel or ssh
> tunnels (with key auth).
> >
> >
> > Also, this: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2011-October/032866.html
> >
> > In summary, the client-side can use curl to send a web "POST" message to
> the Xymon server using an https:// type URL.  Encryption solved.  The
> Xymon server can do whatever authentication is required (password,
> client-side certificate, or none).
>
> Just to clarify - on the Xymon server side it's Apache that handles the
> client authentication, and there are many docs describing that. Xymon
> itself is not involved in the authentication or encryption.
>
> I also found that the xymoncgi handler sends back to the client any
> client-local configuration that it finds, so it isn't just a one way street.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
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