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Ability to poll through Amzon EC2 proxy?

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Hi there I have a Amazon EC2 Linux image running , that accepts SSH tunnels from various Raspberry Pi's and OpenWRT devices (using autossh). So I can login to the EC2 image and SSH back to the devices-these are my "emergency" tunnels should the devices not be reachable.Currently I monitor them through their VPN tunnel that also runs (Neorouter), using PRTG. Question-is there a way to point PRTG at the EC2 image, and monitor the devices through it? As some sort of proxy? In case Neorouter fails/service stops (which it does sometimes).

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cabs

amazon openwrt raspberry-pi ssh

Created on May 27, 2015 11:13:45 AM



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Hello Cabs,

is your shh connection always available or only if the vpn connection is disconnected?

Created on May 28, 2015 4:47:51 PM by [email protected]



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Hi Thanks for the reply Yes-the ssh connection is always up on the EC2 instance-as soon as the devices come online, they "call back home" to the EC2 using the ssh tunnel outbound. So if I hop on the EC2 instance, I can then ssh back in to the devices (my backdoor). So my thought was, as well as polling the devices on the neorouter IP, could I also poll through the EC2, along the SSH tunnel?

cabs

Created on May 29, 2015 12:33:25 PM



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Hello,

Unfortunately, the issue is not quite clear to us. Could you please specify your question in few more details? Is you PRTG server running within a Amazon EC2? Which devices would you like to monitor using ssh? Would you like to execute a script if the neorouter fails?

Created on Jun 1, 2015 3:22:37 PM by [email protected]




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