On 15/03/13 11:19, Vernon Everett wrote:
Hi all
Here's an interesting problem that has been put to me. A potential customer has a number of independent IT installations, with no always-on link between them or central IT. If there is an issue at a site, support staff will connect using VPN or Citrix over the interwebs. Is it possible to set up a central Xymon server to monitor these remote sites? If yes, then how? Has anybody done this before?
Do you mean the sites have no "always-on link" like a dial-up connection ? or do you mean there is no VPN always on, but they always have working Internet?
At the end of the day, if you want to get data out of the network to a remote location (whether you use xymon or any other widget), you will need to decide how that information gets there. Whether that is via the Internet or sneakernet is up to you, but obviously sneakernet will be less frequent and a bit more time consuming.
Once you decide on how the data can be transported, it is just a matter of working out how to tell xymon to use that transport method. Let us know what you come up with, and I'm sure someone will be able to offer further advice.
Regards, Adam
-- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au