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by mm63

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Hi there,

Anybody had any experience of setting up a remote management system using GUI's over the internet ? As far as I can work out I have 2 options...
1. Creating a tunnel between the 23 firewalls using ipsec and then allowing everything to flow between this tunnel or
2. installing SSH and a Secure X Server.
Any ideas, preferences or experiences ???

Best regards,

Matt

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by insatiable

You don't mention if you're only going to one or two systems, but SSH would be the way to go. A tunnel, if compromised, opens the way for everyone to get through.
I just installed SSH, but I used to use telnet and had it limited to IP address through /etc/hosts.allow. And, of course, not allowing anyone to log in remotely as root.
I don't use the X windows remotely, just command line, so the SSH works great.
Good luck!!

by mm63

Thanks - sorry for the delay in answering. I know I can telnet to the box with SSH and limit it and all the rest - the question was can I use a GUI to remotely manage it. The problem is the clients first level support who are going to manage the boxes are pretty much just button pushers from the MickeySoft world.

Thanks anyway,

Matt

by djudice

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'remote management using GUI', but if you want to be able to remotely maintain a Unix server using something other than command line control then I would recommend you look into Webmin. It will allow you to control a remote server with a web browser and do almost anything that you would want to do as far as managing the server. It also has a telnet option to allow you to get to a command prompt within the browser for anything you can't manager with the GUI. I use it and am very happy with the results.
http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

David

by mm63

Thanks - sorry for the delay in answering. I'll certainly look into Webmin but the problem is that this software has a proprietry GUI with web access only for stats.

Thanks anyway,

Matt

by mm63

Ooops - supposed to be 2 not 23 (fat fingers !)
The GUI is the proprietary interface supplied for this DHCP/DNS solution. It would be from 1-5 clients situated on one site (remote management by 3rd party) going via the internet to another site where the servers are based.
Hope this helps clear things up!

Ciao

Matt

by mm63

Further info:
Need access for X-type application - the Gui, Telnet, FTP, rlogin etc.

Thanks,

Matt

by lenis

We use an SSH client for remote management. Specifically SecureCRT (Van Dyke Technologies, Inc). If you set up the profile with X11 PORT FORWARDING for the host you are administering, it works pretty flawlessly and is secure (as SSH is).

by mm63

Thanks - sorry for the delay in answering. Excellent news ! I'll look into that - hadnt thought about it.

Many thanks,

Matt

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