Carlos M. Perez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I was hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.  I’m
> looking to put together a small device (4521-30 or 4826-50) that will
> accomplish a few things:
> 
>  
> 
> 1 – Network Monitoring –basic nagios system
> 
> 2 – Data Collection – Using cacti/rrdtool
> 
> 3 – Remote Console – need something that we can run GNOME/Desktop on so
> that we can remote in, and use the device’s local browser
> (Firefox/Opera) to configure network devices ranging from Copiers,
> printers, IP phones, access points.  If it has a web based GUI we need
> to access it.

That's actually something that's better done with ssh port forwarding or
an out and out ip tunnel of some sort (ip-in-ip l2tp ipsec etc)

leaves you with a much lighter weight device and the browser runs
locally on your own machine.

for a concrete recipe example try this:

 ssh -l username bastion-host-name -L 8000:remotedevice-ip:80

which will bind local port 8000 to port 80 in a device accessible from
the other end of the tunnel to your bastion host.

>  
> 
> I’m sure that for the first two items, the 4511 would do.  I don’t know
> if we’ll need to jump all the way up to a 5501 just to get the GUI to
> work.  We’ll want something debian based, since I’m sure we’ll find some
> more toys that we’ll run on these boxes.  We’re trying to eliminate the
> need for us to have a full blown PC at each different client location. 
> Many times, the only end user devices are thin clients and we need to
> configure/check the config of different devices.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone done anything like this or know of any sources to start with?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> 
>  
> 
> Carlos M. Perez
> 
> CMP Consulting Services, Inc.
> 
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