[CLUE-Tech] extranet

[Keith Christian]

Hi Jesse,

If a scripted telnet client would help (automate logins, grep log files, etc.
etc.) you should look at Kermit, which has a full blown scripting language
built-in.  Scripting info here: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html

Kermit plus a few scripts would ease the situation quite a bit I think.

As for the web interface, I can't see how that would help until after the
client machines had been contacted and the relevant info downloaded to a local
source (again, dump the output of grep /var/log/messages, etc. to a text file
with the Kermit client, then analyze that on the local machine and feed the
output to Apache.)

======Keith


--- Jesse Flygare <email_sucks at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Linux Gurus...
> Long time reader, first time mailer :-)
> 
> I have a question perhaps you guys might have some ideas. I work in an 
> environment that connects our office to almost all of our clients over a 
> wan. The systems we are connected to on the client side are mostly HP-UX and
> 
> AIX with a few DG machines in the mix. Currently, our administration over 
> these machines is rather hodge podge. We must must telent to the machine 
> through a proxy and perform all tasks that way. There is a great deal of 
> redundant administrative work (read logs, check file systems, see 
> processes... etc) that takes a great deal of time because of the way we have
> 
> this setup. Here is what I want to do:
> 
> Have a linux server at our office run an extranet to our client machines. I 
> want to create a web interface for any task we redundantly perform on the 
> client machines. Here is the caviot.... We do not own these machines and 
> there are far too many to coordinate a client wide standard install of any 
> additional software. So I must use the tools already available. I hate to 
> say it but not even ssh is available on all machines. As far as I know, 
> telnet is the only absolute standard way of connecting to these machines we 
> have. (Perhaps you have some suggestions of things I can check for). Our wan
> 
> is very secure, which is the only reason I feel comfortable with telnet. I 
> would even use rsh if it was available on all machines.
> 
> Assuming telnet is my only option... what tools are there availible to me 
> for building a web interface to these machines? I can create perl scripts 
> and use cgi, but I am hoping there might be something available more 
> specifically designed for my situation.
> 
> Any information you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
> 
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