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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