Re: {bb} BB Client and firewall problem

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <4112A14F.7020708@trantor.org> Galen Johnson <gjohnson@trantor.org> writes:

>Matt.Allen@trustwave.com wrote:

>> Sorry for the direct approach, but I haven?t seen my issue in the 
>> Majordomo list. I was wondering if you have designed or were thinking 
>> about a solution to BB clients unable to send cpu/disk information to 
>> a BB server behind a firewall.

>Check out deadcat.net. There is a bb extension (bbfetch) which will use 
>scp to bring the files across. However, I've had much better luck using 
>the doc out there for ssh tunnels.

Another solution I have implemented just a few days ago uses a
modified "bb" client program which sends the status messages over
HTTP.  In all cases I've seen, clients are allowed to make HTTP
requests (and the BBDISPLAY server already runs a webserver, so...)

The modified "bb" client simply wraps the BB message into an
HTTP "POST" to a web-server CGI script; this script then unpacks
the message and forwards it to the local bbd daemon.

It will be in the next bbgen release. Beta version early next week.


Henrik
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