On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Michael Niehren <mich...@niehren.de> > wrote: > >> 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 >> - ... >> > > As a lifelong proponent of using the command line over GUIs whenever > possible, I definitely understand the desire to have a utility that would > allow this. A couple of things I would point out in this regard: > - You still probably want to do this on the Guacamole Client side, not on > the guacd side. guacd does not keep track of Guacamole Client usernames - > the sessions are tracked by UUID - so you'd have to interface with the > client, anyway, or try to determine which UUID to manipulate based on the > parameters of the connection, which seems sketchy at best. > - Doing this on the client side ought to be pretty straight-forward, > though, because you can make use of the wonderful REST API that the web > interface already uses. Everything that is done on the Guacamole Client > web UI, with the exception of the tunnel itself, is handled via REST API > calls that returns JSON-formatted data. So, it should be pretty > easy/straightforward to create a command line utility, written in C, > Python, Java, NodeJS, or even just using bash + curl, to login to the API > and get the TOKEN, and then perform whatever administrative tasks you want > to do, which would be pretty much anything you can do on the web side, > including the things you mentioned above, but also things like user > management, connection management, permissions, etc. > > I do really like the idea of creating a command-line utility to go along > with the Guacamole Client package - maybe some of the other developers > could weigh in on whether they think this would be something worth rolling > into the overall Guacamole Client package, at which point we could create a > JIRA issue to track the request. If you're at all familiar with REST APIs > and programming languages, you could start implementing one on your own :-). > > -Nick > Here's a quick/simple example of a Python-based utility that logs in to Guacamole, gets active connections, and logs out: https://pastebin.com/6LdWCwdm -Nick
