[hobbit] Future of Hobbit

[Larry Barber]

<i>people ask what will happen if Henrik leaves the scene for any
reason.</i>

Henrik's code is very clean, any competent C programmer should be able to
maintain it.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Jan 25, 2008 2:38 PM, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Hobbit User in Richmond wrote:
>
> On Fri, January 25, 2008 14:43, Charles Jones wrote:
>
>
>  I think Henriks stance on having the server collect data via ssh
> connections just doesn't scale.  Sure it works fine for a few dozen
> hosts, but let's say you have 2000 servers...now you are expecting be
> able to make 2000 trouble-free ssh connections before the next polling
> cycle begins. This introduces many problems:
>
>
>  I don't recall Henrik advocating this as a Good Thing.  In fact, I
> suggested building the ssh capability into Hobbit a while back, and he
> explained why it was not the Right Thing to Do.
>
>
>  I think I worded what I said wrong..I meant to say that Henriks stance
> "was that using ssh does not scale".  Sorry for the confusion!
>
>  A good solution would be an ssl-encrypted, bi-directional protocol. This
> would allow secure transfer of client data, either push or pull, without
> the overhead, management, and security risks of using ssh.
>
>
>  Sounds rather like what Henrik said he'd pursue at some point in future,
> when he demurred on the ssh-integration suggestion.  In lieu of it, I
> generally have the Hobbit server push an ssh-based port forward for tcp
> 1984 to each client with such a need and let the clients happily report to
> localhost.  High port, doesn't have to be a privileged user, and you can
> limit the user via .ssh/authorized_keys.  Autossh makes it persistent.
> You have the tunnel overhead, but not the constant setup/teardown of the
> connection.  Just another way to skin the cat, has its trade-offs too.
>
>
>  Yeah I think he has planned to implement SSL, just hasn't gotten around
> to it, and since he is the only coder, we have to wait...or do we? If
> someone out there is good at C++, why not help Henrik out and do some of the
> coding for him?  I've had the fact that Hobbit "only has one coder/author"
> raised as a red flag when I was advocating Hobbit...people ask what will
> happen if Henrik leaves the scene for any reason.
>
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