[hobbit] User management for Xymon?!

[Maik Heinelt]

  Well setting up a new instance of Xymon is working, if you have just 
1-3 costumer, who to show their server status.
But if you have about 30-40 or even more, it is a lot of work to manage 
all this accounts and instances.

Anyway....
I'm really surprised, how many list member are posting to this topic!


Maik

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On 2010/07/08 16:40, Dominique Frise wrote:
> We had kind of the same problem that we solved by generating a second 
> set of pages. The default set is complete and intended to the admin 
> group while the second -prefixed- is for the helpdesk team.
> Each team then access Xymon with a different URL:
>
> admin: http://example.com/xymon
> helpdesk: http://example.com/hk-xymon
>
> For this to work you need to run bbgen on different bb-hosts or -what 
> we did- organize bb-hosts to be able to run bbgen on a subset of the 
> hosts. On this subset you can then ignore (bbgen --bb2-ignorecolumns) 
> all tests that you do not want to make appear on bb2.html. (we do not 
> show any local checks).
> For not interfering with the default set we also created the needed 
> set of prefixed config., cgis, gifs, and menus dirs/files. (helpdesk 
> team see only a subset of menus).
>
> Dominique
>
>
> On 07/ 8/10 02:53 AM, Maik Heinelt 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.
>>
>>
>> Heinelt Maik
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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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