Ludovic, New GUI looks great from the screenshots
> it allows us to make PacketFence fully configurable through the Web interface I think being able to set up PF and configure it all from a web interface would be a great step forward and is key in driving it's adoption forward. I think having to edit config files etc puts quite a lot of people off PF - especially if they are not familiar with Linux. Things have improved a lot in this regard from when I first started using it a couple of years ago, but we can see from some of the questions that get asked on the list that people do still struggle to get it up and running and I think this initial effort puts people off - which is a shame because once its set up its a fantastic solution. I have had zero problems since I started using it. I honestly don't think there is a better NAC out there. Cheers, Mark On 22 Nov 2012, at 20:08, "Ludovic Marcotte" <lmarco...@inverse.ca> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Over the past few months, we've been working at Inverse on getting > PacketFence v4 out by the end of this year. Things are progressing very well > and this message aims to highlight some of the upcoming changes in > PacketFence. > > The most important change in v4 is the brand new Web-based administrative > interface. We've based everything on Catalyst, Perl Template ToolKit and > Bootstrap. This results in a much more modern GUI which is an order of > magnitude faster then the previous one but more importantly, it allows us to > make PacketFence fully configurable through the Web interface while keeping > all of the core features of PacketFence unchanged. > > All "external" modules have been directly included in the new GUI, such as > the Statement of Health (SoH) module and the guests management module (which > is now simply called "users management"). The following screenshots show > these integrated modules: > > [cid:part1.00040107.00010607@inverse.ca] > [cid:part2.06040904.01030304@inverse.ca] > > One the biggest change in the new Web interface is the addition of the > authentication sources module. This module allows you to add Active > Directory/LDAP/Kerberos/RADIUS/htpasswd and local authentication sources and > create rules. Rules are composed of conditions and actions. This gives a lot > of flexibility to PacketFence, which will compute rules on-the-fly and apply > actions (set a role/category, set an unreg date, mark the user as a sponsor, > set the access level of the user for the Web administrative interface, etc.) > when conditions are met.The following screenshots show this new module: > > [cid:part3.02070204.07060400@inverse.ca] > [cid:part4.01050103.07040909@inverse.ca] > [cid:part5.08090308.08050003@inverse.ca] > > Of course, everything else has been overhauled, as we want the new interface > to be much more intuitive. Here are some other screenshots: > > [cid:part6.06030902.02050103@inverse.ca] > [cid:part7.02060102.06090106@inverse.ca] > [cid:part8.07040805.07090001@inverse.ca] > [cid:part9.07090903.01010607@inverse.ca] > > If you're interested in following closely our development, please have a look > at the "catalyst-admin" > (https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/tree/feature/catalyst-admin) > branch on Github. We'll soon start releasing nightly builds of v4, in > preparation for the first final release. > > As usual, your comments are welcome! > > Best regards, > > -- > Ludovic Marcotte > +1.514.755.3630 :: www.inverse.ca<http://www.inverse.ca> > Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu<http://www.sogo.nu>) and > PacketFence (www.packetfence.org<http://www.packetfence.org>) > <pf-admin-soh.png> > <pf-admin-users-create.png> > <pf-admin-auth-list.png> > <pf-admin-auth-source.png> > <pf-admin-auth-source-rule.png> > <pf-admin-nodes-search.png> > <pf-admin-node.png> > <pf-admin-reports-ssid.png> > <pf-admin-fingerprints-search.png> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. 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