Re: Remote monitoring

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:42:15AM -0500, Marc Mitchell wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> To: "Marc Mitchell" <marcm@eisolution.com>
> Cc: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Remote monitoring
>
>
> > Marc Mitchell wrote:
>
> >
> > Another option is to ssh into the machine, set your $DISPLAY back to
> > your local machine, and then run pgmonitor.  ssh does secure remote X
> > display.
>
> When remote, the link between my workstation to the box being monitored is
> via the net where my machine gains access via a NAT router and does not
> have its own publicly routable IP.  So making the connection back from
> server to workstation is problematic at best.

I think you and Bruce are talking past each other, here. You mention
slogin, Bruce mentions SSH. Clearly, the server can get packets to your
workstation, and vice versa, since you can get a terminal session. SSH
has the capability to piggy-back an encrypted X session on top of that
connection: I don't think slogin does. To use it, you need to enable
the option, or use the command line switch (unfortunately, the switch
has varied from version to version of SSH, so I can't tell you which
one it is, either -x or -X)

If you've got sshd running on the server, you're golden - I do this all
the time, with our wireless net here, BTW.

Ross