[Server-devel] Web-based Management Interface for the XS

[Marten Vijn]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 00:52 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> PHP security is viewed as less than acceptable for interfaces  
> accessible from the open Internet.
> (The words of our security architect, which I see no reason to doubt.)
> It is viewed as barely acceptible for interfaces which can only be  
> accessed from within the school.
> 
> Should the configuration interface should also be available on the  
> WAN interface ?
> My opinion is yes.
> 


1. or use a vpn/ssh to access it. 
avoiding thing i see right now on port 22 (over 1200 attempts per
weekend)

2 more:
- we could use something like puppet as backend and add nessesciary
modules. https://reductivelabs.com/
- write a front end for it (if someone is not doing that already)
- monowall /pfsense had nice php* examples of plugable gui's

in the end configuration should accessable by:
- https
- cmdline (ssh)
- snmp3

The designer has to be aware of that.

3. adding a abstration layer might be  better to do configs for like
nagios,cacti,smartctl,mdadm,   

Marten   






 



 




> Comments ?
> wad
> 
> On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:00 PM, crosvera wrote:
> 
> > bryan wrote:
> >
> > > If you do intend to build a web-based interface from scratch, can  
> > you use a pretty language like Python or Ruby to do it? Perl and  
> > PHP make my eyes bleed. Both Django (Python) and Ruby on Rails seem  
> > like great frameworks for rapid development.
> >
> > What is wrong with php?, there are frameworks like symfony that  
> > they are cool.
> >
> > However, I would like work in the design of a new admin interface,  
> > taking in mind your feedback and requeriments.
> >
> > see ya..
> >
> > Carlos Ríos
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