BBwin data sent securely?
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Hi,
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:31:37PM -0800, Tech Support wrote:
Anyone have some advice on the easiest way to have BBwin send it's data securely to an external Xymon server so the info can't be read by a middle-man system? Does it require ssh, vpn, or some other connection method, or is there something built in that I just need to configure?
AFAIK there's no built-in encryption for reporting (although that would be nice).
I use stunnel on my clients and servers to encapsulate reporting traffic in an SSL/TLS tunnel. I do that on Linux, but stunnel also seems to be available for Windows: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html
P.S.: I use port 1983 for my SSL tunnels. Sounded more fitting than e.g. 1985. ;-)
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I've used HTTPS functions in Powershell to talk to a secure web server, but not for Xymon.
You can set up xymoncgimsg.cgi on the Xymon server to receive Xymon messages sent via HTTP POST.
Put those two together, and you've got as much secure transport as the web server will negotiate, including client-sde SSL certificates if you want to go that far. I have bash scripts in Linux that use curl to post the data to Xymon that way. It's not ideal, but it gets the job done.
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Tech Support <support at innovateteam.com> wrote:
Anyone have some advice on the easiest way to have BBwin send it's data securely to an external Xymon server so the info can't be read by a middle-man system? Does it require ssh, vpn, or some other connection method, or is there something built in that I just need to configure?
Thank you.
Kris Springer Systems Admin & Support
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