[hobbit] Best way to monitor server in a DMZ ? or remote LAN ?

Buchan Milne bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Mon Feb 11 14:39:57 CET 2008


On Monday 11 February 2008 14:05:17 L.M.J. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 16:01:48 linuxmasterjedi at free.fr wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>   I would like to monitor servers inside a DMZ. Since the Hobbit-Clients
> >> push the information to the server, they are not able reach the LAN
> >> Hobbit
> >> server : communication from the DMZ to the LAN is forbidden...
> >>
> >>   What is your experience in that area guys ?
> >
> > I use msgcache and the pulldata tag, so that the Hobbit server connects
> > to the
> > hosts being monitored ...
>
> Alright, I've added "pulldata" in the bb-hosts from the server. I've
> removed "DISABLED" msgcache in the clientlaunch.cfg file client.
>
> Is there something else ?
>  I still see my client inside the DMZ trying to reach the server without
> success (blocked by the Firewall).
>  I also see the server who make the request to the clients which is normal
> BUT my DMZ hosts switched to purple!
>
>  Did I mist something ?

Configure the client to report to itself (the msgcache), by setting 
BBDISP=127.0.0.1 in hobbitclient.cfg.

Regards,
Buchan




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