Pynk Server v3.0 Released
/Pynk Server
Pynk, or the Python Network (K/C)ontrol (Names are hard, give me a break) is a programme designed to return data, when polled, about the system it is sitting upon. Pynk aims to return the data sysadmins, and other users too, tend to need the most, such as temperatures, interface information, connection quality, listening services etc., without the need to SSH in, or use bulkier methods. To ensure security against man in the middle attacks, and sniffing, which could leak sensitive information, pynk sends everything across the network encrypted using an implementation of the Jencryp protocol (also hosted here).
To ensure ease of migration and data integrity, a MySQL database is used to store critical values and passwords. Pynk also uses a table to store error messages and logs, and uses a simple script to generate error logs, which can then be used for support.
As of August 4th, there are .deb and .rpm packages available. The deb works fine, thank you very much, but the RPM is untested. Still, can't hurt to give it a go.
Dependencies
It ought to go without saying that this is a Linux tool. This may be used on other platforms with procfs
Download
The tarball can be found either here or on the sourceforge project page. Whichever does it for you. The DEB and RPM are also on there, as are they on here at pynk_3.0.1-1_i386.deb and at pynk-3.0.1-2.i386.rpm
Developers
Error messages, questions, patches, bug reports can be sent to james at jamescondron.co.uk
James Condron 2009