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Central Interface

Scrutinizer Distributed provides a central interface to view up to the top 1000 interfaces from dozens of autonomous Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow collectors. A Scrutinizer collector is a standard Scrutinizer license.

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Adding Collectors

The Central interface can collect the top interfaces from several dozen distributed Scrutinizer collectors. Multiple Scrutinizer collectors are added via the interface below:

IMPORTANT By default, every Scrutinizer server is configured not to allow remote database connections. When setting up the Central interface, each Scrutinizer collector must be configured to allow remote MySQL connections. Click Here to learn how to set this up.

Remote MySQL Access

- You should see a mysql> prompt
- Now we will create a remote user account with root privileges Run these commands:
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'USERNAME'@'IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';

Example:
mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'remote'@'166.146.124.183' identified by 'snoopy'

Or if you want to be able to access it from anywhere, use a % sign for the IP address
mysql>grant all privileges on *.* to 'remote'@'%' identified by 'snoopy'

When finished:

For more information on limiting MySQL user account, reference this link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-resources.html

Note: If you wish to assign the root user with a password, you can run this command:

\scrutinizer\mysql\bin> mysqladmin -u root password YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD

Would you like to see a feature added to Scrutinizer? Click Here and tell us about your feature request.

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