If you're a Windows admin who's afraid of the command line, I doubt you'll be one for long. Doubly so if you can't do scripting...
-- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ossec-list] I want to get rid of OSSEC's Windows GUI. What do you think? On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:29 AM, James M. Pulver <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m perfectly happy to not have the GUI. I would like to keep the key > file the same so my wrapper install script can just drop in the key. > While I prefer using config files and command line, the average Windows user in general -- and many Windows admins I have met -- are more comfortable with doing stuff in a clickety-click kinda way. What I would suggest is to find someone who is willing to take over that specific project. i.e. delegate to whoever volunteers to do the deed. Now, what I would suggest is that anything this gui can do is done through command line -- edit config, import keys, and whatnot -- so it is just a pretty way to do what you can do in a script. > > -- > > James Pulver > > CLASSE Computer Group > > Cornell University > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of SoulAuctioneer > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ossec-list] I want to get rid of OSSEC's Windows GUI. What > do you think? > > > > I want to do a lot of work on the Windows agent to try and make it better. > One of the big changes I have planned is getting rid of the Windows > GUI. In my opinion the GUI doesn't provide enough value to make it > worth maintaining the fairly significant amount of code that it > produces as well as the bug reports. Lets look at what the GUI actually > provides: > > Version information > When OSSEC was installed > Ability to import key > Ability to change IP address > The information from the key about what is configured currently Quick > links to viewing the logs and config Help link to the help txt file > Service status information and the ability to change the service state > > For the help, version and quick links. I think these links are helpful > but can be done as shortcuts in the start menu to provide the same > convenience. > Importing the key is nice and probably the most useful thing but I > would argue that this needs to be done once per server. I'd rather > make manage_agents.exe the way to do this in the future. > > > > Changing the IP address again is something that maybe gets done once. > I don't think it is much to ask that someone uses a shortcut link that > opens the configuration file in notepad.exe to edit configuration > options from now on. This is the only configuration option the GUI is capable > of changing. > > > > The service information and changing statuses is probably the most > useful thing that the GUI does. However, all of this can be done using > native windows tools/cmdline. For most things System Administrators > have to go into mmc to make changes to services this way. Most of this > code is buggy and doesn't work well anyway. > > > > Basically, I'd like to get rid of the GUI and all of the code required > to make it work so more focus can be put into other features and OSSEC's core. > I think the GUI is just a novelty and with the Windows world moving > toward a more command line oriented future this makes sense in a lot of ways. > > > > I wanted to see if anyone had any strong opinions on the matter before > I start working on this as I understand this can be a pretty large > change that people may not like. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ossec-list" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ossec-list" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
