Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:29:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system admin question... Message-ID: <20071012182927.GC23501@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200710121651.56292.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> 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>
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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
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