Hi Henry,
On 13 Jun 2014, at 18:41, Steinhauer, Henry -FS <hsteinhauer at fs.fed.us> wrote:
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3 - I had some questions also about the msgcache.c process.
3a. - Is this something that can run on a Windows system?
Not to my knowledge — even if there were I would try to avoid it for maintenance und performance reasons.
3b. - Or should we have a Unix system in our Windows sub-net to collect the Windows Client information to pass onto a general server?
You did not outline your network topology / firewalling setup. As you consider using msgcache I assume that your Windows machines cannot access the Xymon server. What I have done similar situations
- have a unix box with xymonproxy running (this requires installing the sever package but everything of the xymon server is disabled and xymonproxy enabled)
- all (windows) systems report to the xymonproxy (as it that were the xymon server)
- if the unix box can directly access your xymon server you could let xymonproxy send all messages to directly
- if no direct connection is possible (firewall / security policy, …) you can combine the above with the
ssh-tunnelextension by Padraig Lennon. For this setup have published an article: http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/combine-ssh-tunnel-with-xymonproxy/ (that also links to the original and my patched ssh-tunnel)
All the best Thomas
3c. - What have others done?
This is a great collection system.
Thanks for any guidance.
Henry
Henry Steinhauer ITIL v3 / Glacier Technologies, LLC USDA Forest Service / Integration Lab Project hsteinhauer at fs.fed.us (505) 750-4672 (google voice)
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