Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:44:19PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:

That wouldn't be a big deal. We've got lots of B(L)AMP applications
running and plenty of FreeBSD servers to run them on. That might be an
option for me.

What about the email system that has been discussed already?

On the first run only:

HostA emails root, root forwards that to rpt@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
rpt@xxxxxxxxxxxx sends back text to be added to /var/db/bsdstats ...

Subsequent runs use the information in /var/db/bsdstats, emails the repot
itself to root who then forwards *that* to rpt@xxxxxxxxxxxx ...

We're also going to be working on AUTH Proxy, for those that need that ...

As Antony stated, we no longer store IP/hostname, but the reporting does
require the information to get back into /var/db/bsdstats to be used for
reporting, so the "non-fetch version" would defintely be a bit more
involved for the admin ...

I don't understand the proposed data flow well enough to say. Unless
the operation is easily automated, an action per-machine isn't going
to happen.

-- Brooks

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