remote farm monitoring
Hi.
I would like to monitor several remote server farms from a central location.
These server farms consist of solaris 10 x86 machines, so I can't install the server component on them (!?!!!) The remote farms also contain SNMP enabled hw.
My access to these farms is limited to a single contact point (machine). I need this machine to aggregate the data from the farm, traps and all, and pass it to my central monitor. I need the protocol to these machines to be secure.
I have sparc based machines in my central location, so I can run the server there.
Is this goal conceivable using the SMC platform, or do I have to look for something else (like Uptime...). Is the problem only that I cannot run server components on X86 ?
Thanks,
Meir Lamed
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meirl] at [2007-11-26 9:51:20]
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Hi Meir,
> These server farms consist of solaris 10 x86
> machines, so I can't install the server component on
> them (!?!!!)
That's right: the "Server" part of SunMC doesn't work on x86, yet. But the Agents and Console work fine.
> My access to these farms is limited to a single
> contact point (machine). I need this machine to
> aggregate the data from the farm, traps and all, and
> pass it to my central monitor. I need the protocol to
> these machines to be secure.
Server->Agent communication uses SNMPv2usec (authenticated, and no clear-text passwords like SNMPv1. Plus Solaris 10 contains the libraries needed for the SNMP to be encrypted as well. So the security part is covered.
There's no way (that I know of) to put any sort of proxy or store-and-forward system between Agents and Servers. But I don't see why you have to do that: it sounds like a standard networking issue. If your single computer is enabled as a bridge then you should only need some routes added for the networks to "see" each other.
Also, if you choose to go with some sort of NAT/firewall solution instead, SunMC supports that as well (/opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-config -n).
Regards,
Mike.Kirk@HalcyonInc.com
http://www.HalcyonInc.com
