[hobbit] User management for Xymon?!

[Vernon Everett]

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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