Hi Nick,
my intention was to administrate guacamole without using the client
interface. With an console utility you can do much more things like
- monitoring the usage in realtime (Nagios)
- automatically kill a session running longer than x minutes ...
- showing the current login's in another application
- ...
you are more flexible to implement such things, with such an console program.
best regards,
Michael
Am 30.12.2017 um 23:04 schrieb Nick Couchman:
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Michael Niehren <mich...@niehren.de <mailto:mich...@niehren.de>>
wrote:
Hi together,
first of all, many thank's for guacamole. I've successfully setup it
together with jetty.
I would like to have something like an admin utility, which runs in
an linux shell, where i can can control the guacd.
For example:
- get_active_sessions
- kill session
- history of sessions
Michael,
This is an interesting idea, but I have a couple of questions:
- Most of this functionality is already available in the Guacamole Client interface, if you're
using that (instead of a custom-built one on top of the Guacamole API). I believe you need to be
using the JDBC authentication module, as you have to be able to define administrative users, but
the Settings menu area provides the Active Connections tab, which shows current sessions and
allows you to kill existing ones, and then the history tab, which shows past sessions. This seems
to cover your list of items.
- You asked about this functionality as it relates to guacd, but I'm not sure why you're trying to
get this functionality at the guacd level instead of the Guacamole Client (or API) level? Doing
it at the guacd level is certainly something that could be implemented; however, it seems like the
value would be limited, as identifiers for sessions in guacd are just UUIDs, which makes it
difficult to attribute sessions to certain users or connections. Also, if you can track and kill
the sessions on the Guacamole Client (servlet) side, why do you need to do it for the guacd
componenet?
-Nick
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