[Xymon] PSclient sending from intranet

[Timothy Williams]

The Powershell client can connect to the Xymon server using TCP port 1984
as default, but can also connect using HTTP or HTTPS with/without
user/password. You likely have port 80 or 443 open. Here are Word doc
details:

HTTP is an alternate method. It can be used if you have xymoncgimsg.cgi
running on the web server on your Xymon server – see
https://www.xymon.com/help/manpages/man8/xymoncgimsg.cgi.8.html. The web
server running the CGI can be configured for SSL (i.e. HTTPS) and / or
authentication – XymonPSClient supports basic authentication and SSL. If
you require authentication, the <serverHttpUsername> and
<serverHttpPassword> elements should be configured.
If you are using HTTP and transmitting over unsecure networks (e.g.  the
internet), it is strongly recommended to enable SSL, authentication and
disallow HTTP connections.

ServerHttpPassword encryption
If <serverHttpPassword> is set, the Xymon client will encrypt the password
if it is not encrypted and remove the plain text password from the
configuration file, overwriting with the encrypted password. The Xymon
client will prefix the encrypted password with ‘{SecureString}’, so it is
easy to tell if the client has attempted to encrypt the password or not.
This is done using the .NET SecureString functions, which means that the
encryption is unique to the server and user. This means that once the
password has been encrypted, you cannot use the same xymonclient_config.xml
on another server. It also means that if you have been testing by running
XymonPSClient from a command prompt, and this encrypts the password, when
you run XymonPSClient as a service it will not be able to decrypt the
password unless the service is running as the same user.
In both scenarios, replacing the encrypted password with the plain text
password and re-starting Xymon will cause the password to be re-encypted.


Tim Williams

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:37 AM Rolf Schrittenlocher <
schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:

> any possibility to send something from intranet to the world outside?
> creating webpage, send by sftp or scp? This could be done by cron and
> xymon could analyze this data then.
> > Anyone have an idea about how to collect client server stats using the
> > Powershell client on machines that are on an intranet that blocks port
> > 1984, and send it out to our external xymon server located in a
> > different part of the country?  The intranet network doesn't want to
> > open any additional ports to allow the traffic out.
> >
>
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