F@H on Linux dedicated server - Firewall Question

[xgeek]

Hi Guys,

Very new to all this F@H stuff but thought it sounds interesting enough to try and help out.

I have a quick question if you don't mind. I have a dedicated linux server in a data centre that I use for FTP and email mail duties. It's a P4 2.8 GHz with 1gig of ram and gets very little use. Would it be worth running F@H on that?

If it is could someone tell me if I need to open any ports in my firewall to let it report back data? I installed the client to test as per the sticky and I think it is running okay (see log file info below) but I am not sure about ports. I guess it uses port 80 for grabbing the WU? but what about the return path?.

Second question. How can I remotely monitor the progress? I looked at FahMon 2.2.0 but not sure how that would access my server unless I put the F@H working folder in the public HTML path and accessed it via a URL.

Anyone else out there that runs F@H on a remote linux dedicated server that can give me a few pointers?

Cheers
Xgeek

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[Berserker]

As long as you allow egress (outgoing) on ports 80 and 8080, you should be fine.

As for monitoring, depends what you want to do. I have this sort of monitoring going on...

(for the observent among you, spot the EUE)

Which is based on Munin. There's a folding@home plugin for it, but I re-wrote that to handle dual core systems.

 

[Mr. Brightside]

Unless I've gone blind the Folding@Home plugin isn't to be found anywhere on the Munin website (this is the first I've heard of it). If you do go the Munin route and can't find the plugin Berserker mentioned, I wrote one myself a while back (supports multiple cores/CPUs) which you might want to try: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17678087

(Saturn, the machine I was using it on, was taken out of service a few months ago so no example graphs but it's pretty much identical to the above).

Hope this helps, null

 

[Berserker]

It's in the standard collection that comes with Munin - as is one for project rank and one for WUs (both of which you have to modify to add your user ID).

 

[Mr. Brightside]

Never realised

null

 

[xgeek]

Many thanks for the help guys but I have decided to just run F@H on my home PC instead so I could join the single CPU number crunchers

I may try it on my dedicated server again so will bookmark the info for future reference.

Cheers
xgeek