Firewall & SNMP service

[m3rlin]

Hello, im having here a problem with my firewall, i'm using Firestarter as a firewall, i have donne the steps to make this firewall load on startup, but it doesn't load. i must open a Terminal as root, run the command "firestarter" and then close the window of the firewall.
after this i have the firewall running. Is there a way to load this on startup?

My other question, is SNMP service, im trying to implant this in a network, but im having a lot of dificultys to find a software, that runs SNMP service, comunities, trap, agent, the all thing, and easy to configure. This could be in linux your windows, i realy don't mind, because its in my work, and i have both plataforms.

Can you recomend something? And what about a nice howto on SNMP Service?

Thanks

[terets]

You didn't post your distro, so i'm not sure how to configure your startup scripts to run properly.

More than likely you can add a line to your rc.local file under /etc/init.d with the line that points to your firestarter app. Not for sure though. Your distro's distribution will tell you how.

For your SNMP problem. Pick up this months issue of Sysadmin. There is an article on how to do exactly what you want.

You would use nagios - www.nagios.org - as the main reporting server. There are some other things involved that you need to decipher your MIBs and everything. The article is great and explains exactly how it works and it all uses open source on Linux.

Keep this in mind though, SNMP is not "easy." It doesn't exist. You just have to learn how to tame it to work for you.

[m3rlin]

Thanks fpr the reply i gonna check that sysadmin post.

Im using Slackware 10, i know i should and a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to startup the firewall, but the command "firestarter" is a GUI interface, so during the boot it returns an error that can't execute the command. This is obvious because during the boot im still on a shell :(

There must be a way to run my firewall!

Thanks for the replys

[m3rlin]

I got it, just need to add -s flag

in a boot script, /usr/local/bin/firestarter -s

works fine


I wanna thank everyone who have posted here, your help was most welcome :)

[davisfactor]

Just to throw this in here, I use the nsclient plugin for Nagios to monitor my Windows server's disk space. It can monitor anything else I want it to, but for right now I only have it doing disk space.

If you chose Nagios and are interested in nsclient, you can find it here: http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/