[mrtg] Re: AW: Re: AW: AW: run mrtg on a different machine asthew ebserver

[Chirhart, Brian]

I don't know a whole LOT about protocols, but with FTP, doesn't the CLIENT
initiate the connection, which is why it is so vulnerable?  So if your MRTG
box is the server and someone hacks your web box, they could open a
connection on port 21 to your internal network simply by running a scan on
the recently hacked web box.  Anyone want to verify/shoot holes in this?


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Oliver Ziltener [mailto:ziltener at netcloud.ch] 
Sent:	Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:13 PM
To:	MRTG_Mailing-list (E-Mail)
Subject:	[mrtg] AW: Re: AW: AW: run mrtg on a different machine
asthewebserver


Hi Paul
The datas should be as actually as possible...
We talk here about max. 20 html pages to bring every 5 min to the webserver.

about ugly ftp... I think it is better to use ftp than smb (windows
protocol)
or nfs.
Ftp need less bandwidth on the network...and authentication is not more
worse.

Let my start with the rrdtools stuff.

thanks 
Oliver




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Paul C. Williamson [mailto:pwilliamson at mandtbank.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. Januar 2002 20:43
An: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch; Oliver Ziltener
Betreff: [mrtg] Re: AW: AW: run mrtg on a different machine
asthewebserver



So you'd be ftp'ing the data every 5 minutes?  That's ugly...

Basically, you want to put the html and graphic files on another machine.

You *may* want to consider how the data will be viewed.
Do you need near time graphing?  If not, you could always copy the 
graphs once a day, once an hour or something.  If it's only a few 
MB worth of info, it might not be bad, but that seems dangerous, and 
just begging for data corruption.

Paul

>>> "Oliver Ziltener" <ziltener at netcloud.ch> 01/08/02 02:39PM >>>
Thanks



The mrtg is a win 2000 machine, the webserver is a cobalt webserver
(apache).
We don't like to map any drives, so we don't want to share any drive with
nfs, samba or win2000 share or what else.
(We have the webserver in the dmz and our mrtg inside our network and our
security police does not allowed sharing drives between dmz and inside).

Perhaps-one way seems to use ftp and a script 
But I think it is time to study rrd stuff...

best regards
Oliver


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