On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:49 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
Hi Scott,
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:45:05PM -0500, Scott Walters wrote:
After writing the VPN/sshbb/email I was thinkin it could be pretty
easy to add this 'functionality' native to hobbit.
I guess it would, and when I wrote the Hobbit client I did it with this
in mind. It would be fairly trivial to provide a wrapper for the client
side scripts that runs them through a VPN or SSH tunnel.
This would be very useful to me - "hobbit central" ala bb-central.
It's not something that I plan on using myself, but it could easily be
a common add-on to Hobbit. I do prefer to run the clients locally on the
servers because that scales much better than having one server pull all
of this data into Hobbit. Parsing the data doesn't take nearly as long
as collecting it...
But having one or two servers that poll all of the others does scale
well, because you don't have to install (and upgrade) hobbit clients on
a hundred machines - just set up an rsa key and you are done. If the
primary hobbit display/alarm/parse work is too much with the polling
added, just use a second hobbit server for polling/parsing and feed the
results to the display server...
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