[hobbit] Wanna show off.

[Buchan Milne]

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 16:21:46 Denis wrote:
> I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.
> We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.
> Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty
> access to only some parts of the web console.
> So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model
> between entreprise and community product.
> i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to
> admit that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities yet

1)I think it should actually be quite easy to workaround this by having 
different areas in separate files, and including them into the main bb-hosts 
file, running bb-gen for each include file separately (to set a different cgi 
path), and multiple scriptalias statements to the usual CGIs, with SetEnv used 
inside the location to set the correct BBHOSTS variable (and do the 
authorization on the apache side).

2)This feature is on the roadmap for 4.5 I think

3)This is something that could be implemented without any changes to any core 
Xymon code. I haven't had time to start a web interface, but if we can get a 
few people to agree on the architecture, I am sure we can have something 
working without too much effort or time.

Regards,
Buchan