[hobbit] User management for Xymon?!

[Neil Franken]

I have to agree that we need to investigate the need for such a system. On my xymon display I not only have 'system' tests like CPU but also business process tests.  I don’t want business to see the CPU consumption but would love to give them access to view the business processes status. Currently I can't which is not a train smash but it would be a nice to have.


-----Original Message-----
From: Maik Heinelt [mailto:maik at vegasystems.com] 
Sent: 08 July 2010 03:29 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] User management for Xymon?!

 Thanks a lot!!
It doesn't look that difficult!
I will try that way!

But anyway, I still think, this feature would be a great one in one of the next Xymon version!

Maik

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On 2010/07/08 10:24, Vernon Everett wrote:
> 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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