You are right Chiradeep, When talking about real simple installations It would be nice, though. for a bit more you would not want this indeed. So it would be an extra for the administrator. I still like the idea.
As for you wiki page, I presume you want to propose both implementations, Or are you defining options to choose from? On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <[email protected]> wrote: > This isn't for the admin. The end user has no access to the MS file system > or any direct access to the secondary storage NFS server. The only > frontend available to the NFS secondary share is the SSVM. > > Re: dropbox: that is already available : enter a URL. > > On 2/20/14 11:05 AM, "Daan Hoogland" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Yes, shouldn't take to much work. >> >>On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:01 PM, John Kinsella <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You mean to load files off the management server, yea? That makes sense >>>to me >>> >>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Daan Hoogland >>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> why not a allowing a simple file:///home/me/my.template kind of url? >>> >>> for simple installations this should do. >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:42 PM, John Kinsella >>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> We definitely need to support more than http download. http upload >>>sounds interesting, but I'd love to see something more resilient for >>>large uploads. How 'bout specifying a "drop folder" type location on the >>>mgmt server that the server polls every 15 seconds for new files, then >>>in the UI the user can pick from the files shown there? Not as secure as >>>your browser upload pattern, though. >>> >>> Maybe use something like https://github.com/blueimp/jquery-file-upload >>>that allows resumable uploads? >>> >>> Just had the thought of maybe adding support for >>>dropbox/box.net/etc<http://box.net/etc>. At that point, an ImageFetch >>>plugin hook starts to sound interesting. Adding a bit torrent plugin >>>could make getting the default templates quite snappy. :) >>> >>> >>> On Feb 19, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Chiradeep Vittal >>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The fact that one has to have a HTTP server to host templates before >>>the templates can be imported into secondary storage is an >>>inconvenience. I am not sure how much of an inconvenience it is, but I >>>was asked to detail the technical architecture, if it needed to be >>>supported. Certainly, I can imagine for folks coming in contact with ACS >>>for the first time, it might seem onerous to set up another web server. >>> >>> I've sketched a strawman proposal [1] to support browser-based uploads >>>of templates and volumes to secondary storage. >>> It is not yet a PROPOSAL since it is still raw (and I do not have time >>>to work on this immediately). >>> >>> Please comment on this. >>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/jY5cAg >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daan >>> >>> Stratosec<http://stratosec.co/> - Compliance as a Service >>> o: 415.315.9385 >>> @johnlkinsella<http://twitter.com/johnlkinsella> >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Daan > -- Daan
