Hi Alex,
On 18/10/2021 20:38, Axel Beckert wrote:
Hi Christoph,
Christoph Zechner wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:37:28 +0100 Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote:
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Nevertheless, I'm also interested in trying out local mode myself, so
expect this to come at some point in the future. But it won't be
included in the upcoming Debian 10 Buster, though.
is there any news to this problem?
No.
Are there plans to include this in Debian?
More or less as stated before — until your mail from today of course.
My own need is rather little. Mostly privacy concerns (process lists,
etc.) on workstations or non-LAN machines.
For my workstation at home I wrote
https://packages.debian.org/systray-mdstat to serve my biggest need.
Serves well so far.
For non-LAN machines (and IPv6-only hosts *sigh*) I use stunnel over
port 1983. :-)
Christoph Zechner wrote:
To put Debian machines into "local mode" for xymon, the binary
"xymond_client" is needed on the clients, which is not part of the
"xymon-client" package as of yet.
Correct.
Just wanted so summarise, because this issue is rather old. :-)
Contrary to what is stated above, it seems to suffice to copy the binary
"xymond_client" which is part of the "xymon" server package onto the
clientes.
Interesting. I can't remember any more details how I came to that
conclusion (but it was likely by looking at the upstream build
scripts), so I'd say it's worth a try.
This has been tested on buster (xymon-client 4.3.28-5+deb10u1) and bullseye
(xymon-client 4.3.30-1), both tests were successful.
Thanks for that information! Makes me more confident that this
experiment works out. :-)
Would it be possible to provide this binary in the "xymon-client" package as
well?
Well, it would be a move of that file from the xymon package to the
xymon-client package as both need to be able to be installed at the
same time since xymon depends on xymon-client for running checks on
the Xymon server as well.
Both "xymon" and "xymon-client" are built from the same source in
Debian, in my opinion (and from a security standpoint as well, since
local mode on xymon clients is more secure) it would be highly
benificial if the binary was included. The functionality for local mode
is just a config change away and only fails because the "xymond_client"
binary is not there.
Cheers
Christoph
Regards, Axel
