[Xymon] Regional Servers to Central

[Galen Johnson]

No...regional servers can't push to central.  I have to pull from the regions.  Egress rules are essentially open...ingress rules to inside the corporate network require a small miracle and help qualify for sainthood.

I'd prefer command and control happen from the central server but at a minimum it needs to manage the alerting.  This also provides a layer of monitoring from outside our network within the regions themselves to allow us to show that alerts are potentially due to a network issue between local systems and remotely monitored instances (usually conn tests since ICMP seems to flake out occasionally).

=G=

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From: J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 7:52 PM
To: Galen Johnson
Cc: Xymon Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Regional Servers to Central

On Wed, April 6, 2016 3:48 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> I'm pretty sure this has been done (is possible).  I'd like to change my
> setup to have regional Xymon servers that communicate to a central server.
>  I know this is possible but...I can't open a connection back to the
> central server and have to use msgcache for my clients currently.  Is it
> possible to set up the regional servers such that my central server
> manages the alerting and lets me see the remote servers using msgcache (or
> some other xymon server config that can use msgcache-like config)? I've
> attached a diagram for what I hope to do.   If you can point me to a
> doc/web page, that would work to.
>
>

Can the regional servers push messages to the central server? If so, I
believe you could use xymonfetch on the regional systems (similar to what
you're doing now) reporting in (might have to use env variables on its
command line) to a local xymonproxy port, which is itself configured to
send both to the local xymond (on a non-standard port) as well as the
regional ones.

Kind of depends what you're looking for the regional servers to do though.
If all command and control remains central, then it's really just
functioning as a proxy itself... (+ xymonnet polling?)

-jc