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Can Hobbit talk over an ssh tunnel?

list Gar Nelson
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:41:21 -0700
Message-Id: <user-3b9cdf9058af@xymon.invalid>

Thank you.  I've got a green "ssh-tunnel" now but still no other data.
I'm much closer now. ;)

I think the next problem is that the system behind the firewall is
actually two systems in a high availability configuration. While they
each have the same name on the outside, depending on if it's the
primary, or failed over, they have different names on the inside. When I
was searching around I briefly saw some setting where you could tell the
hobbit client 'use this name for yourself' but I didn't bookmark the
page, and now I'm back to searching for it.

The files in /usr/local/hobbit/client/tmp have the individual machine
short name, and /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts lists the shared
machine long name.

Gar

Lennon, Padraig wrote:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOW
TO#Monitor_Hobbit_clients_in_a_DMZ_using_reverse_SSH_tunnels


Bit biased cos I wrote the script!! Sorry.. It works though 


regards,

Padraig Lennon
Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Pioneer Investments Management Ltd
5th Floor | 1 Georges Quay Plaza | Georges Quay  | Dublin 2 | Rep. of
Ireland.
Tel.  +353 (0)1 480.2081 | Fax. +353 (0)1 480.1111

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gar Nelson [mailto:user-28410809031a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 13 January 2009 23:19
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Can Hobbit talk over an ssh tunnel?

I have a client behind a fairly tight firewall that is controlled at a
much higher level than me. Getting port 1984 authorized is something
that is not going to happen, but port 22 is open going both ways.  As
user "bb" on the server, or on the client, I can ssh from one system to
the other without a password prompt.

Is there a way to convince Hobbit to talk over an ssh tunnel?

Thanks for any assistance.
Gar