[mrtg] Re: firewall/rsync/mrtg

[Chris Marlow]

Oh, okay.  I misunderstood the question...

Now if you put the MRTG / RRDTool program on the web server, can you open
up a hole in the firewall so that any SNMP traffic (Or however you poll)
from that SPECIFIC server can be let through, and therefore have your
charts / graphs updated?

-Chris

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"Daniel R . Kilbourne" <drk at voyager.net> on 03/14/2001 04:21:58 PM

To:   Chris Marlow/Burlington/Contr/IBM at IBMUS
cc:
Subject:  Re: [mrtg] firewall/rsync/mrtg



it would, but I use rrdtool, and the images/html are only created as
needed.

Chris Marlow extolled:
>
> Wouldn't it be easier (and safer) to have the current box sit behind the
> firewall, running mrtg as it does, and then just copy out the final
> products to the web server (i.e. the .gifs, .png's, .html files).  That
> way, anyone on the outside cannot play with the program or the rrd
> databases, and if they mess up the gifs, they'll be overwritten in 5
> minutes anyway...
>
> -Chris
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> Christopher S. Marlow
> AIX Infrastructure / 24x7 Security
> Burlington, VT
> Phone: 802-769-3253
> Tie line: 446-3253
> e-mail: marlowc at us.ibm.com
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> "Daniel R . Kilbourne" <drk at voyager.net>@list.ee.ethz.ch on 03/14/2001
> 03:59:08 PM
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> Subject:  [mrtg] firewall/rsync/mrtg
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>
>
> OK. Another question.
>
> My mrtg server that I work on is currently on a publicly accessible IP
> address, but password protected since the
> people that started mrtg here felt that the stats needed to be kept
> private.
>
> Now, since first doing mrtg, we have built a firewall for our LAN, and my
> mrtg server will be moving behind it, but
> at a meeting yesterday, it was brought up that our stats will now be
> released for the general public to look at.
>
> So, I am thinking that I can move the current box behind our firewall,
make
> it function solely as a poller,
> and build a web server on a public IP, and use rsync to copy my rrd files
> (I use rrdtool with 14all.cgi) from the poller
> to the web server.
>
> Has anyone had to deal with something similar? Are there any pitfalls I
> should look out for? Anyone have better ideas
> or suggestions for dealing with my task?
>
>
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