tailbridge

README

tailbridge

This is supposed to be a very simple tool which does a very simple thing - lets you view logs on a remote machine without having to SSH into it.

Setup and Usage

Go dependencies

You would need to install a couple of dependencies before you can run or build the project.

go get github.com/googollee/go-socket.io gopkg.in/yaml.v2

Running the server

To run the server you need to have a config.yml present in the current directory, which contains all the necessary configuration settings. There is a template config.yml.sample which you can copy as config.yml and tweak the latter according to your needs.

After the configuration is done, the following command will start the server on the default port 9191 -

go run main.go

Once the server is up and running, and assuming you have configured a linux machine with IP 192.168.1.33 with a user having proper access to the machine in your config.yml, one can navigate to the following url to tail one of the system logs file -

http://localhost:9191#192.168.1.33,/var/log/messages

Configuration

Here is a short definition of the various options that go in config.yml -

listen - Listening port for the server

groups - You can organize your similar machines in logical groups like web servers, databases, etc. A group can have certain settings which are common to the machines in that group

user - Use this user to SSH on the machines in this group

port - SSH server port on the remote machine

machines - List of machines in this group

directories - List of directories you want to allow the access to. Each element is a wildcard directory pattern.