Greetings,
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
Why not run Openvpn on the remote and central centos boxes to create a big private network, using unique IP ranges for each remote? This can be used for other management purposes or could be firewalled to just permit snmp. For what you describe, all you need is a route to the routers, and this would give you a route to the 'inside' interface. If you want to allow it, it will also allow remote access to everything behind the router.
Well taken
Your router is probably only going to have snmp, and accessing it from the inside interface will work to report the interface usage of all interfaces.
Well taken
Probably not, but you can vpn-tunnel through it, and openvpn will work fine through NAT and with one end having a dynamic address.
Well taken and am working towards that (With you know what ... see below)
I'm partial to opennms - and have used it in somewhat similar circumstances (generally static IP's, but using a central monitor from the private side through tunnels). The one thing you need for this to work is unique IP addresses throughout, though. Most monitor tools will be tied to IP addressing and will be confused if each location NATs to the same range.
Apologies. But Zabbix is settled for time being as it eventually be a government property and they have more or less standardised on LAMP. And Zabix seems to be a very promising tool.
But Zabbix 1.8 does not seem to do a simple ping test on an IP. Maybe I am facing the wrong end of it....
Anybody with experience on Zabbix???
Thanks again and Regards with best of season's greetings,
Rajagopal