[Xymon] routing between xymons

[Ron Cohen]

Clever one :)
Thanks


On 16 May 2016 at 13:14, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Den 13-05-2016 kl. 17:13 skrev Ron Cohen:
>
> Hello there...
> we have here a pretty big production environments, and even bigger
> non-production.
> I've configured xymon for both, but the guys that do the actual monitoring
> objected to have alerts coming from non-production servers, since those are
> mostly non-crucial - they don't want to see any of those reds on their
> screens.
> I played for some time with the alert propagating, but  it won't do, so
> sadly I disabled all the non-prod clients.
> The obvious solution (unless there's a simpler one) is to start another
> xymon on different port and different URL. the problem is that it requires
> a firewall setting, which is a major headache to make.
> what i thought of, is to do routing at the bb port, so incoming clients
> will be routed according to the IP origin to the prod and non-prod xymond
> (say ports 1985 & 1986).
> It is not difficult to implement,  but before pythonizing it, i wonder if
> there is an existing solution within xymon which i missed, or anyone else
> already done it?
>
> Xymon doesn't have a built-in solution to this - at least not that I can
> think of.
>
> You could do it with firewall rules on the Xymon server, though. I suppose
> your non-prod servers are on another IP network (if not, the rules will be
> a bit messy)? With a Linux-based Xymon server you would setup some iptables
> redirection rules like
>
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s ${NONPRODNETWORK} --dport 1984 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 1985
>
> where NONPRODNETWORK is the IP network for your non-prod servers ("
> 192.168.10.0/24" or whatever). Xymon requests sent from the non-prod
> servers to port 1984 on the Xymon server will then transparently be
> modified to hit port 1985 on the Xymon server.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
>
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