1. A Special Way To Manage Your Linux boxes by IM protocol
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2. Agenda Lab Boxes Problem Solution (robot) Implementation Enhancement
What is the Linux IM protocol?
What is the problem we are facing
How we use IM to solve the trouble
More IM implementations
Linux IM Technology

3. Agenda Lab Boxes Problem Solution (robot) Implementation Enhancement
What is the Linux IM protocol?
What is the problem we are facing
How we use IM to solve the trouble
More IM implementations
Linux IM Technology

4. Lab Boxes Problem The server room topologies Trusted
Clustering control
Do Linux command

5. Lab Boxes Problem System admin case examples
Power off all boxes gracefully
Check OS distribution
etc.

6. More ? Convenient ? Lab Boxes Problem Useful remote sys admin means:
Telnet/RSH/SSH
SNMP
VNC
More ?
Convenient ?
What is Jabber?
What is XMPP?

7. Agenda Lab Boxes Problem Solution (robot) Implementation Enhancement
What is the Linux IM protocol?
What is the problem we are facing
How we use IM to solve the trouble
More IM implementations
Linux IM Technology

8. Linux IM Technology Two Foundations www.jabber.org www.xmpp.org
What is Jabber?
What is XMPP?

9. Linux IM Technology
Features

10. Linux IM Technology
Features

11. Reference to www.jabber.org/software
Linux IM Technology
Software categories
Servers (15)
Components (35)
Clients (97)
Code libraries (53)
Reference to
Server sugguestion: Jabberd, OpenFire
Server comparison chart (6 GPL)

12. Agenda Lab Boxes Problem Solution (robot) Implementation Enhancement
What is the Linux IM protocol?
What is the problem we are facing
How we use IM to solve the trouble
More IM implementations
Linux IM Technology

13. Solution
Hint

14. Solution
C/S deployment

15. Solution
Workflow 1

16. Solution
Workflow 2

17. Agenda Lab Boxes Problem Solution (robot) Implementation Enhancement
What is the Linux IM protocol?
What is the problem we are facing
How we use IM to solve the trouble
More IM implementations
Linux IM Technology

18. Implementation Server: Openfire/Jabber1.4 Client: Gaim/Pidgin
Library: SmackAPI
Robot: Mobot

19. Implementation
Mobot Structure

20. Implementation Mobot can do for you do local admin (session less)
do remote admin (ssh)
do rdbm search

21. Implementation Mobot will do next Trap plugin Fetch log files
Build SSH tunnel

22. IM Solution Conclusion
How do you balance?
Efficient: no login, cluster operation
Easy: easy to go across firewall, no firewall limitation
Security:
Benefit
Efficient
Easy
Defect
Less Security
!Session command

23. Q & A

24. THANK YOU!