BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

[Antony Mawer]

On 5/12/2006 2:47 AM, hal wrote:
> 
> On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:09:18 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>> Since the point of this is to be run monthly, out of periodic 
>>> monthly, the 1st
>>> of the month is when all hosts should be 'renewing' their information 
>>> ...
>>
>> I have some diskless workstations running FreeBSD. Sure users are not
>> supposed to use them _every_ first day of month (ex. when this day is
>> a weekend or a holiday). Whould stats from those workstations be
>> useless?
> 
> How do machines report in?  I have several FreeBSD boxes most
> of which have non-routable addresses and are behind a firewall.
> 
> Can I have a "spokesman box" which reports for all?  If I can
> how?

The machines use simple HTTP requests using the 'fetch' program.. if the 
machines have Internet access via NAT, then that should be sufficient.

If they live on a closed network without Internet access, but you have 
an internal-facing server that does have Internet access, I have a draft 
document on setting up Apache on that server to forward proxy to the 
main BSDstats site.

It will be posted to the BSDstats site once I've finished it (probably 
in about a week). If you want to help test the draft instructions prior 
to publishing, email me privately and I'll provide you with the relevant 
details.

Cheers
Antony