From Todd.Costa@state.ma.us Wed Jun 24 08:13:50 2026
From: Todd.Costa@state.ma.us
To: xymon@xymon.com
Subject: Telnet/ssh from Hobbit Display
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:41:34 -0500
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Hello Listers,

I am wonder if its possible in Hobbit to establish a telnet/ssh session to a
host that's being monitored from the Display? If it can be done, how do I go
about doing it?

I have read about adding html tags in the header/footer files on the BB
archives which comes close to what I want but did not explain further. I did
not find anything in Deadcat. Google is great but there's way too hits to
sift through.

My goal is to connect to an old device via telnet/ssh from a link in Hobbit.
I realize telnet is taboo but the device is/can be isolated from outside
connections (managed IP's). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks for your input.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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From frederic.mangeant@steria.com Wed Jun 24 08:13:50 2026
From: frederic.mangeant@steria.com
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Subject: [hobbit] Telnet/ssh from Hobbit Display
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:55:10 +0100
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Costa, Todd (DMH) a écrit :
> Hello Listers,
>
> I am wonder if its possible in Hobbit to establish a telnet/ssh session to a
> host that's being monitored from the Display? If it can be done, how do I go
> about doing it?
>
> I have read about adding html tags in the header/footer files on the BB
> archives which comes close to what I want but did not explain further. I did
> not find anything in Deadcat. Google is great but there's way too hits to
> sift through.
>
> My goal is to connect to an old device via telnet/ssh from a link in Hobbit.
> I realize telnet is taboo but the device is/can be isolated from outside
> connections (managed IP's). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>   

Hi

there are Java SSH clients, like : http://www.netspace.org/ssh/

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis





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From ralphmitchell@gmail.com Wed Jun 24 08:13:50 2026
From: ralphmitchell@gmail.com
To: xymon@xymon.com
Subject: [hobbit] Telnet/ssh from Hobbit Display
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:01:40 -0600
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I just found this:

   http://p3m.org/wiki?Firefox

which says that you can set up some user pref entries in Firefox to
handle new protocols, so I went to the "about:config" page and created
these entries:

   one "string" type:

      network.protocol-handler.app.ssh

   with the path to a script as it's value:

      /usr/local/bin/fox

   three boolean types, set "true", true" & "false" respectively:

      network.protocol-handler.expose.ssh
      network.protocol-handler.external.ssh
      network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ssh

A test page contains this link:

   <A href=3D"ssh:10.10.10.10">My Server</a>

and the /usr/local/bin/fox script contains this:

   #!/bin/ksh

   OFS=3D"$IFS"
   IFS=3D":"
   set $1
   PROTO=3D$1
   URI=3D$2
   IFS=3D"$OFS"

   if [ "$PROTO" =3D "ssh" ]; then
     exec /usr/bin/xterm -e ssh $URI
  fi

Obviously the script could do with some data validation - this was
just for proof-of-concept.  The arg handed to the script is the whole
uri including the protocol, so it could handle multiple protocols.

Anyway, when I click on the link, a new xterm window pops up with a
ssh session to my server.  I suppose if your desktop is running
Windows, the script would need to fire up putty.exe or something
similar.

Ralph Mitchell


It seems to work OK with Firefox-1.0.7 in Gentoo Linux.
On 1/13/06, Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com> wro=
te:
> Costa, Todd (DMH) a =C3=A9crit :
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > I am wonder if its possible in Hobbit to establish a telnet/ssh session t=
o a
> > host that's being monitored from the Display? If it can be done, how do I=
 go
> > about doing it?
> >
> > I have read about adding html tags in the header/footer files on the BB
> > archives which comes close to what I want but did not explain further. I =
did
> > not find anything in Deadcat. Google is great but there's way too hits to
> > sift through.
> >
> > My goal is to connect to an old device via telnet/ssh from a link in Hobb=
it.
> > I realize telnet is taboo but the device is/can be isolated from outside
> > connections (managed IP's). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> >
>
> Hi
>
> there are Java SSH clients, like : http://www.netspace.org/ssh/
>
> --
>
> Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Mangeant
>
> Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
>
>
>
>
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