[hobbit] New enable/disable tool ready for testing

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 04:31:45PM +0200, Paul van Eldijk wrote:
> 
> > My solution works somewhat differently than the old "maint.pl" script:
> > The enable/disable functionality is no longer a separate webpage
> > listing all hosts; instead, this function is moved to each hosts'
> > "info" column page. I did this because I have about 2000 hosts, so the
> > list of all hosts was practically unusable in my setup. You can see
> > how it looks on the demo site http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ - just pick
> > one of the "info" buttons.
> 
> The problem with this sollution is, that everybody with acces to the 
> monitorpages can now enable/disable tests. We like to make information 
> available to all IT-staff, but the enabling/disabling is being done by 
> operations, based on RFC and calls. How to prevent others from 
> enabling/disabling in this new concept?

Everyone can see what's disabled, but using the enable/disable
function still requires a separate authorization just like maint.pl
does today.

That's why you cannot disable anything on my demo page - unless you
can guess what password I use.


Regards,
Henrik