Re: [hobbit] Alternate to msgcache/hobbitfetch?

[Galen Johnson <gjohnson (at) trantor.org>]

Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> I've got some servers out in the DMZ that can't talk directly to the 
> corporate network.  I can get out to them via socks/ssh.  I do not 
> want to run another listening service (msgcache) out there in the 
> DMZ.  Is there a way to configure the client to collect messages to a 
> file (without msgcache listening), and then go retrieve/process those 
> file(s) via ssh from the Hobbit server and process normally?
>  
> What I'm doing now is not installing the client in the DMZ, and 
> instead using a custom Hobbit server script that socks/ssh'es out to 
> the DMZ and runs it's own data collection commands.  The data 
> collected is similar to what the client would normally do, but it's 
> all done via custom script without any help from the Hobbit client.
>  
> I guess what I'm looking for is a hobbitfetch variant that uses 
> ssh/scp rather than connecting to a msgcache listener.  And along with 
> that, a way to configure the client to collect data normally, but 
> skip starting a listening service.
>  
>  
I can't remember where I saw it but I thought this functionality was 
already part of hobbit...

=G=