Webmin Servers

This page provides access to every Webmin server on your local network (Figure 3-2). Clicking any icon will direct your browser to the login page of the server clicked. Clicking Broadcast for servers will cause Webmin to send out a broadcast request to port 10000 over your local network. Every Webmin server on your network will reply and identify itself. Webmin will then add those servers to the list of servers. You may also scan specific networks for servers, if you manage Webmin servers remotely. Simply enter the subnet to search and click Scan for servers.

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Figure 3-2: Webmin servers

Clicking a server icon will simply direct your browser to the Webmin port on the selected server, allowing you to log in. You may also configure Webmin to connect you to the server through a proxied connection, if you provide a user name and password for the other server. This can be useful when connecting remotely to a front-end Webmin server on the routable Internet that also connects to a non-routable private network, allowing an administrator outside of the private network to tunnel through to administer systems inside the private network.

Versions of Webmin beyond 0.85 provide support for some functions to be executable via remote procedure calls, if login information is provided for the remote server. This allows a single Webmin server to directly configure or monitor other Webmin servers. Currently this functionality is limited to the System and Server Status module and some of the modules in the Cluster category. It is likely that many of the other modules will expand to take advantage of this new functionality in the future.



The Book of Webmin... or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX
The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX
ISBN: 1886411921
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 142
Authors: Joe Cooper

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