From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 18:29:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B598D16A469 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:29:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C78013C47E for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:29:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9CITSuR023668; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l9CITRAc023667; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:29:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Mel Message-ID: <20071012182927.GC23501@thought.org> References: <20071010195759.GA3820@thought.org> <6.0.0.22.2.20071010163932.025776f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20071012004323.GA16110@thought.org> <200710121651.56292.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200710121651.56292.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system admin question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:29:27 -0000 On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Mel wrote: > On Friday 12 October 2007 02:43:23 Gary Kline wrote: > > ((A parenthetical note): > > In prep for this posting I finished (or expanded) my > > mail-strip program that eliminates most of the cruft and > > leaves the body. ) > > > > So I'll look at bigsister, conky, nagios, monit, and Ksysguard. > > (Mel, if you have a cheatsheet for Ksysguard, that would be a > > big win.) The more I can automate, the better. > > Hmm, the cheatsheet would be: > - ssh-keygen -d => create passwordless ssh key > - ${EDITOR} ~/.ssh/config => setup configfile to use the passwordless key to > those machines. A nice trick is to use CNAME/A record in your local dns, > with 'sysguard.machinename.local.domain' and set that as Host for the > passwordless key. This allows you to use keys with passwords on normal > hostname, should you desire so. > > The rest is drag'n'drop - create new tabs for a host and drag the infomodule > over that you want displayed. Right-click for properties, like size and graph > type then save the worksheet. Once the worksheet is setup, nothing on the > remote machine is needed and you can set it as default, create/open new ones > etc. This is really personal preference. I create worksheets per type > (load/memory/disks) and have all machines in different tabs, but others might > find it more useful to create worksheets per machine. > I've set up the paswordless ssh keys before. The *rest* of it-- especially using GUI tools--may drive me up the wall! Or maybe not; maybe I'm getting uesd to these graphic tools:-) thanks, and I may tap you on the shoulder, offline! if I get wedged gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org