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