F@H - FahMon For Linux - An Idea

[KE1HA]

I use FahMon, as do allot of folks here to moitor benchmarks & ppd for their respective machines. I've always had trouble setting up a system whereby I can monitor both WinDoze & Linux machines through the same FahMon interface.

Possible Solution:
I have a VPS Server and can allocate static IP addresses with it, takes about two minutes to setup. On my Linux boxes, I could set up a Cron Job to FTP or SSH the relevate files < I'm assuming the unitinfo.txt and FAHlog.txt files > to a static IP address, under a foldername which represents that specific machine. Then to add a new client to the FahMon, just point the location to that IP address / folder location and it should pull the data into FahMon.

Obviously your Cron Job would have to be set to something more than your Check-Point Setting, say (Check-Point + 2 Minutes). I use 30 to keep utilization on Check-Points at a reasonable level.

Questons:
1. Do we know what is needed from each respective FAH folder in order for FahMon to update the Client ?
2. Has anyone figured out a simple way of doing this? Bare in mind, allot of Work Borg's are behind access firewalls or VPN tunnels, so getting to them from home is trcky without passing Domain Authentication credintials. This method of FTP would resolve that problem, as it's outbound from the Domain, not inbound to it. It could also remove the windows Domain issues for Windows machines as well, just use the Task Scheduler v.s. Cron.
3. Any other thoughts or Ideas ?
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[Mr. Brightside]

I made a thread about it this a couple of weeks ago (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17622505).

In the end I just set them up with Samba servers, this has been working OK for the most part though I've had a few errors from Fahmon saying it can't open client.cfg (Error 5: access is denied).

From the sounds of what you're saying this isn't suitable for your needs but I thought I'd chuck it in anyway incase anyone else is wondering how they might do this. Also any info on the client.cfg file would be appreciated, my guess is it's because client.cfg is opened by the client and locked or something?

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[KE1HA]

I suspect, if one was a smart chappy, they could use a combinaiton of rrdtools and php / python / perl / bash etc etc to send the informatoin to a website. I'm going to have to look into this a bit further I think.

Could also use ChartDirector like EOC does for displaying the informaiton on the site.
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[Mr. Brightside]

I seem to remember Berserker posting a link once to a system he had setup with Munin that graphed WU progress on all his crunchers? Can't remember the link though - perhaps you could post it for us Berserker. Might do this myself one day.

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