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Re: [hobbit] Hobbit integration into a portal ?



Tony - very good idea.  I like that one =)
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Tony Larco <tlarco (at) polr.com> wrote:

> 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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