On Friday 08 December 2006 21:50, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Stef Coene wrote:
On my todo-list:
- web based driven configuration
- external collection of status messages and trending
- mis use of hobbit and data channels for communication -> can this be protected with ssl or something else ?
Not as it is now. If you need that, I'd suggest installing something like OpenVPN and feed the communications through that - it's simple, easy to setup, and a reasonably efficient communications path. Pff, my servers will be AIX boxes :( The best thing I can think off is ssh forwarding.
My major problem is that I can not program in C. I know perl fairly well. Why would that be a problem ? What you're planning to do can be done without touching any of the Hobbit code, you'll just be interfacing to the public interfaces (config files, hobbitd channels, the network interface on port 1984) and Hobbit doesn't care how you do that - whether it's from a Perl program, or a C program.
Of course, doing it in Perl means I cannot help you develop or maintain the code, since my abilities in Perl are probably even worse than your knowledge of C. That's why I wanted to this in C if possible. Stuff like ssl support for communation can be usefull for others.
Stef