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Summary data: pull from upsteam server instead of pushing to

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list Gary Baluha · Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:50:43 -0500 ·
Here's the situation.  I have one hobbit server running on a DMZ'ed machine,
and another hobbit server running on the internal network (the protected
side of the DMZ).  The general policy is to not allow any DMZ host to
initiate connections to the internal servers (security policy and all).
However, I would like to have a summary of the DMZ hobbit server to be
displayed on the internal hobbit server.

According to the bb-hosts man page, the "summary" command pushes data to the
upstream server--in this case, it would be my internal hobbit server.  Is
there a way for the upstream server to pull the data instead (i.e. the
internal "upstream" server pull from the DMZ'ed hobbit server)?  If not
currently, are there plans to add this feature to a future release of
Hobbit?
list Dave Haertig · Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:33:42 -0700 ·
Here is how I did it:
 
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2007/06/msg00417.html
 
Stef Coene was nice enough to grab that mailing list post and put it up
on his Wiki:
 
http://www.docum.org/twiki/bin/view/Hobbit/PullingSshClient
 

From: Gary Baluha [mailto:user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:51 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Summary data: pull from upsteam server instead of
pushing to
quoted from Gary Baluha


Here's the situation.  I have one hobbit server running on a DMZ'ed
machine, and another hobbit server running on the internal network (the
protected side of the DMZ).  The general policy is to not allow any DMZ
host to initiate connections to the internal servers (security policy
and all).  However, I would like to have a summary of the DMZ hobbit
server to be displayed on the internal hobbit server. 

According to the bb-hosts man page, the "summary" command pushes data to
the upstream server--in this case, it would be my internal hobbit
server.  Is there a way for the upstream server to pull the data instead
( i.e. the internal "upstream" server pull from the DMZ'ed hobbit
server)?  If not currently, are there plans to add this feature to a
future release of Hobbit?