Solution: Groups in Lightsquid with USERNAMES :)

cyber7

Hi Guys
LightSquid reports is of no use to management in my business, as they do not have a clue what the IP addresses means.

NOTE: /etc/hosts can be edited, but it is not permanently. Is there a place to add ip/name info into to make these available all the time?

Here is what I did:

I created a "/scripts/hosts" directory.
I created all my ip/names in a file called "internal_hosts" in this directory.
In the "/scripts" directory I created a script that looks for a specific host in the "/etc/hosts" file, if not found, add the content of "/scripts/hosts/internal_hosts" to the "/etc/hosts" file.
I then edited "/usr/local/etc/lightsquid/groups.cfg" and added my names/groups.
I then added a crontab entry that checks every minute for the host mentioned in the script

Now, when I display my LightSquid reports (or my management does), every department is listed as a group and every user added into the "/etc/hosts" files is displayed within the department.

In my next post I will post the script I use, an example of my hosts file and an example of my groups file.

Kind regards
Aubrey Kloppers
ps - If this is not correct (the above mentioned steps), please could yo give me a better way to resolve the issue?
ps2- All my hosts resolve within my network properly

cyber7

Example files:
1. /scripts/hosts/internal_hosts
129.1.1.200 my.fqdn.com my
129.1.1.201 manager.fqdn.com manager
129.1.1.10 server.fqdn.com server

2. /usr/local/etc/lightsquid/groups.cfg
my 01 itgroup
manager 02 managergroup
server 03 servergroup

3. crontab
*/1 * * * * sh /scripts/addhosts.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

4. /scripts/addhosts.sh
HOSTS=grep my /etc/hosts | wc | awk '{print $1}'
if [ "$HOSTS" != 0 ]; then
else
cat /scripts/hosts/internal_hosts >> /etc/hosts
fi

That is it, guys. Nothing to it :)

Kind regards
Aubrey Kloppers
South Africa

ps - When I look at my LightSquid reports, the groups and users have been defined. Makes for much easer reading