How do you test a large configuration?

Karl DeBisschop karl at debisschop.net
Sat Jun 28 07:18:28 CEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 16:42, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> To the greated extent possible, I'd like to avoid discovering
>     >> mistakes in my configuration when a machine goes down and nobody
>     >> notices.  Other than (actually, in addition to) tediously desk
>     >> checking everything, do people have any suggestions for checking
>     >> large configurations?
> 
>     Karl> Use iptables on the nagios box to block communication with various
>     Karl> ports on various servers. Do this in a controlled manner and you
>     Karl> should be able to test most of your configs.
> 
> Thanks for the excellent suggestion.  If only I had a Linux box available
> for testing.  I'm currently running on Mac OS X 

OS X being Unix, isn't there an implementaion of netfilters or something
around. I know the BSD's have an analogous program, I just don't know
the name offhand.

--
Kalr



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