20 Jun
2008
20 Jun
'08
12:30 p.m.
A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
this is very cool - i guess it would be handy to let remote authorised machiens query it
Yes. But... it is a potential security issue to expose those statistics to anyone who asks. I could see external sites querying these statistics if: - the connection is encrypted - the client is querying a socket dedicated to Status-Server messages.
(trivial to have one central stats store then) but still..... I hope to see a lot of useful tools/widgets using this. bit of RRDTool is calling.....
Yes. There are a LOT of statistics available now. Almost every counter that you could track inside the server is exposed via this method. Alan DeKok.