Re: [hobbit] Hobbit integration into a portal ?

[Tony Larco <tlarco (at) polr.com>]

Our solution was a hack and I will be the first to admit it, but what we 
did was write a little script that ran out of cron on the hobbit server 
that grepped for a customer named and scp'ed the static html files over 
to their portion of the portal web server.  It  was easy to do if I 
remember right and we had a chance to massage the html files and prepare 
them for customers to see.  We used sed to remove the reports and other 
hobbit things (gifs, etc) clients did not need to see.  I cannot find 
the script (I am no longer with the company), but thats it in a 
nutshell.  HTH

Tony


Venturini, Paolo wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm working on a project that aims to "surface" Hobbit functionality 
> through my Company's customer-facing portal, so that customers can 
> monitor their own devices hosted in our data centres.
>
> We need to do it in a way that doesn't violate security. We need our 
> Portal to send Hobbit some customer's parameters in a secure way, and 
> retrieve the requested monitoring information, either in the form of 
> directly displayable HTML pages, or in the form of (XML ?) data.
>
> One customer must not be able to manipulate the browser input to 
> access other customers' monitors.
>
> I am hoping someone can enlight me, or point me to some useful 
> information
>
> Regards,
> Paolo
>
>
>
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