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A Special Way To Manage Your Linux boxes by IM protocol

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Agenda

Lab Boxes Problem

LinuxIM Technology

Solution(robot)

ImplementationEnhancement

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Agenda

Lab Boxes Problem

LinuxIM Technology

Solution(robot)

ImplementationEnhancement

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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

LinuxIM Technology

Solution(robot)

ImplementationEnhancement

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Linux IM Technology

• Two Foundations

www.jabber.org

www.xmpp.org

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Linux IM Technology

• Features

Usermessage

Group

Room

User

Userfile

File Share

User

Presence

User

Usermessage

Chat

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Linux IM Technology

• Features

Your Jabber Server

MSNServer

ICQServer

YahooMessenger

Server

JabberServer 1

Transport

JabberServer 2

JabberServer N

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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

LinuxIM Technology

Solution(robot)

ImplementationEnhancement

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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

LinuxIM Technology

Solution(robot)

ImplementationEnhancement

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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

How do you balance?

• Defect– Less Security– !Session command

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Q & A

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