[Xymon] Encryption

[Stef Coene]

Hi,

If anyone is interested, I documented the steps I did to use wget and 
curl as alternative:
https://www.docum.org/drupal/content/client-server-encryption

@Jeremy Laidman: yes, data from client-local.cfg is also provided.
In fact, when a client connects to the server, the data returned is the 
relevant lines from client-local.cfg


Stef

On 2023-08-23 13:57, Stef Coene wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We solved the encryption by using a wget and/or curl script alternative 
> for the xymon client. It's a drop-in replacement.
> We have a setup script that checks if wget or cups exists and it creates 
> a symlink for the xymon command to the script that works.
> The script uses a username and password to connect to xymoncgimsg.cgi 
> over https to send the data.
> We use 1 username / paswoord for all clients but with some scripting you 
> can give each client it's own username / password.
> 
> If wget or cups is not available (some old AIX servers can not connect 
> to a https server...), the good old binary is used without encryption :(
> 
> I can document it somewhere if anyone is interested.
> It's not that complicated.
> 
> 
> For the Windows clients we also use https as much as possible.
> 
> I have some patches for the Powershell client that allows for testing a 
> new XML file. We want to manage the XML files centrally and want to 
> avoid mistakes that can disable the client. So this allows us to test a 
> new config file before overwriting the old one.
> I also added the ping test command for this and did some changes so data 
> can be send to multiple Xymon servers.
> I will create some patches and send them to the mailinglist.
> 
> 
> Stef
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