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ihost is a "host" application for the i-scream distributed central monitoring |
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system. The job of a host is to harvest data from the machine on which it's run |
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and then send this data to a central server for processing. |
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system. The job of a host is to harvest data from the machine on which it is |
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running and then send this data to a central server for processing. |
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The ihost performs this task on Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD, and is written in |
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the Perl programming Language. |
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How do I use ihost? |
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Fortunately ihost is pretty easy to get started. Once you have downloaded and |
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Fortunately, ihost is pretty easy to get started. Once you have downloaded and |
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extracted the archive, you just need to run the program. This is done as shown |
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here: - |
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./ihost.pl <i-scream_filtermanager> <port> |
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./ihost.pl <i-scream_filtermanager> <port> |
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The ihost should then start and configure itself, providing some debugging |
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the new data from your system. Once this is done and tested, you would modify |
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statgrab to add this data to an outgoing packet. |
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A more indepth discussion may be given in the system documentation. |
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A more indepth discussion is available in the maintenance documentation for |
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the ihost. |
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Where can I get the latest ihost? |
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