[hobbit] User management for Xymon?!

[Vernon Everett]

Check this thread out.
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/05/msg00098.html
It's what I used as a basis for doing what I needed.

You need a second hobbitserver.cfg and a second bb-hosts file, and it
will generate what you need in the specified directory.
Once it works, you can then add it as a menu option in the usual way.

I wish I could offer you more, but I did not take copies of the
scripts when I left and it was a long time ago.

Cheers
     Vernon


2010/7/8 Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>:
> It can be done, but it's a bit of a hack, and requires running
> additional instances of some of the Xymon daemons.
> I have done it before in a previous contract, where we had separate
> Wintel and Unix divisions, so it made sense to have 2 different
> "non-green" views.
>
> I also means you have to maintain or generate additional sets of
> bb-hosts files, hobbitserver.cfg files and so forth.
> It's tricky, but not difficult.
> I was shown how to do it by a list member, so maybe they can repost
> the original email - or I can see if I can dig it up.
>
> Watch this space.
>
> Regards
>    Vernon
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Maik Heinelt <maik at vegasystems.com> wrote:
>>  Well, that's what I said.
>> I already use mod_auth_mysql to ahndle with user logins,
>> but could you please explain, how to manage the all non-green function just
>> for one folder?
>> This would be a nice feature, to make it possible, a user can see only all
>> non-green machines for his folder.
>>
>> I had the menu on Xymon only visible for local, just to avoid, a standard
>> user can click on the "Show all non-green" link in there.
>>
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>> On 2010/07/08 9:40, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>>>
>>> Thing is, Maik, that there are so many options via Apache modules (LDAP,
>>> MySQL, etc.) and you can even connect right into your AD, that it seems
>>> there shouldn't be a huge amount of time with something of such an "add-on"
>>> feel about it.
>>>
>>> What I mean by that is, that Apache alone can make your life very simple
>>> with mod_auth_ldap, mod_auth_mysql, etc.  A few directives, point at the
>>> right database, and voila!  There are plenty of GUI clients already out
>>> there, and there are plenty of cool ways to handle User access/management,
>>> that I'd rather the dev team work on making Xymon do what it does best *even
>>> better*, and that's monitoring things.
>>>
>>> Maybe that can be in the roadmap at some point, but I'm just not sure I
>>> agree very strongly with you that this would be as pressing a need as some
>>> other things in the project.
>>>
>>> I'm willing to be shouted down on that, by the way.  Just my two cents...
>>>
>>>
>>> --J
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Maik Heinelt wrote:
>>>
>>>> As we are talking about new features/function for Xymon,
>>>> I would like to bring in one more idea.
>>>>
>>>> Cause we are monitoring several server from my companies costumer,
>>>> we have set several user for our costumer, to see their server status.
>>>> For this, we just use a simple .htaccess connected with a MySQL db.
>>>>
>>>> It would be very handy, if there would be such a user/permission
>>>> management in Xymon as default.
>>>>
>>>> Just to setup a new user and select the view/folder/sub-folder, where the
>>>> user has permissions to.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maik
>>>>
>>>>
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