Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:39:00 +1100 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> To: hal <hl700@cc.usu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006 Message-ID: <45749574.5030509@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <3C1825A0-EAA3-4E64-9698-A82476CA28B0@cc.usu.edu> References: <D1D335A2174E8CD8E64AB5F1@ganymede.hub.org> <70378354@bsam.ru> <3C1825A0-EAA3-4E64-9698-A82476CA28B0@cc.usu.edu>
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On 5/12/2006 2:47 AM, hal wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Boris Samorodov wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:09:18 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >>> Since the point of this is to be run monthly, out of periodic >>> monthly, the 1st >>> of the month is when all hosts should be 'renewing' their information >>> ... >> >> I have some diskless workstations running FreeBSD. Sure users are not >> supposed to use them _every_ first day of month (ex. when this day is >> a weekend or a holiday). Whould stats from those workstations be >> useless? > > How do machines report in? I have several FreeBSD boxes most > of which have non-routable addresses and are behind a firewall. > > Can I have a "spokesman box" which reports for all? If I can > how? The machines use simple HTTP requests using the 'fetch' program.. if the machines have Internet access via NAT, then that should be sufficient. If they live on a closed network without Internet access, but you have an internal-facing server that does have Internet access, I have a draft document on setting up Apache on that server to forward proxy to the main BSDstats site. It will be posted to the BSDstats site once I've finished it (probably in about a week). If you want to help test the draft instructions prior to publishing, email me privately and I'll provide you with the relevant details. Cheers Antony
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