2 <title>Session monitor</title>
5 <h1>Session monitor</h1>
7 For security reasons, the client portion of the session montior may run on one
8 or more external public machine(s). On these machines, install:
10 <li><a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/relinfo/INSTALL.html">Perl</a> (at l
11 east 5.004_05 for the 5.004 series or 5.005_03 for the 5.005 series. Don't enable experimental features like threads or the PerlIO abstraction layer.)
12 <li><a href="man/FS/SessionClient.html">FS::SessionClient</a> (copy the fs_session/FS-SessionClient directory to the external machine, then: perl Makefile.PL; make; make install)
16 <li>Add the user `freeside' to the the external machine.
17 <li>Create the /usr/local/freeside directory on the external machine (owned by the freeside user).
18 <li>touch /usr/local/freeside/fs_sessiond_socket; chown freeside /usr/local/freeside/fs_sessiond_socket; chmod 600 /usr/local/freeside/fs_sessiond_socket
19 <li>Append the identity.pub from the freeside user on your freeside machine to the authorized_keys file of the newly created freeside user on the external machine(s).
20 <li>Run <pre>fs_session_server <i>user</i> <i>machine</i></pre> on the Freeside machine.
22 <li><i>user</i> is a user from the mapsecrets file.
23 <li><i>machine</i> is the name of the external machine.
31 <li>Copy FS-SessionClient/cgi/login.cgi and logout.cgi to your web
32 server's document space.
33 <li>Use <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html">suEXEC</a> or <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlsec.html#Security_Bugs">setuid</a> (see <a href="install.html">install.html</a> for details) to run login.cgi and logout.cgi as the freeside user.
36 <br><pre>freeside-login username ( portnum | ip | nasnum nasport )</pre>
38 <li><i>username</i> is a customer username from the svc_acct table
39 <li><i>portnum</i>, <i>ip</i> or <i>nasport</i> and <i>nasnum</i> uniquely identify a port in the <a href="schema.html#port">port</a> database table.