HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

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A Special Way To Manage Your Linux boxes by IM
protocol
Tower Wan tower.wan_at_hp.com
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
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Agenda
Lab Boxes Problem
Solution (robot)
Implementation Enhancement
LinuxIM Technology
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Agenda
Lab Boxes Problem
Solution (robot)
Implementation Enhancement
LinuxIM Technology
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Lab Boxes Problem

• The server room topologies

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Lab Boxes Problem

• System admin case examples
• Power off all boxes gracefully
• Check OS distribution
• etc.

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Lab Boxes Problem

• Useful remote sys admin means
• Telnet/RSH/SSH
• SNMP
• VNC
• More ?
• Convenient ?

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Agenda
Lab Boxes Problem
Solution (robot)
Implementation Enhancement
LinuxIM Technology
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Linux IM Technology

• Two Foundations

www.jabber.org
www.xmpp.org
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Linux IM Technology

• Features

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Linux IM Technology

• Features

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Linux IM Technology

• Software categories
• Servers (15)
• Components (35)
• Clients (97)
• Code libraries (53)
• Reference to www.jabber.org/software

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Agenda
Lab Boxes Problem
Solution (robot)
Implementation Enhancement
LinuxIM Technology
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Solution

• Hint

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Solution

• C/S deployment

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Solution

• Workflow 1

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Solution

• Workflow 2

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Agenda
Lab Boxes Problem
Solution (robot)
Implementation Enhancement
LinuxIM Technology
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Implementation

• Server Openfire/Jabber1.4
• Client Gaim/Pidgin
• Library SmackAPI
• Robot Mobot

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Implementation

• Mobot Structure

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Implementation

• Mobot can do for you
• do local admin (session less)
• do remote admin (ssh)
• do rdbm search

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Implementation

• Mobot will do next
• Trap plugin
• Fetch log files
• Build SSH tunnel

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IM Solution Conclusion

• Benefit
• Efficient
• Easy

• Defect
• Less Security
• !Session command

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Q A
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THANK YOU!