User management for Xymon?!

 I will look for the post on Hobbit/Xymon-list and hope to find it.

We already use several bb-hosts files and just include it into the main
bb-host file.
Just to make it easier to manage the costumers.

Do you have experiences about performance, running 2, or more instances
of Xymon on a server?

Maik

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On 2010/07/08 10:05, Vernon Everett wrote:

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 <user-4ab5eb34adb2@xymon.invalid> 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