Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

Alan DeKok wrote:
> A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
>   
>> this is very cool - i guess it would be handy to let remote
>> authorised machiens query it
>>     
>
>   
Seconded.
>   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.
>   
But it also kinda limits the usefulness of the feature. Couldn't you 
place it in the hands of the server admins to decide which hosts can 
query and which can't? Another configuration item in clients?
>   
>> (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.
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Arran

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