For security reasons, I'd have to seriously consider another product if WUG switched to using IIS. I'd accept WUG going to Apache, but never IIS.
Jay Drew LLNL At 09:17 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I, for one, wouldn't be in too much of a hurry to make WUG part of the >growing IIS dependent products. >For one thing, once you've gone that way, you've lost anyone running >anything else. For another IIS may change at any time, making your product >dependent on the whims of Microsoft. (Still smarting from the release of >Dos 3.11, Anyone else remember that?) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:52 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] WUG and IIS > > >Duane, >At this point we do not have those filters. Our intention was to keep >WhatsUp Gold's web files local to its own web server. So it is something >that we would have to take a look at. I am sure our development team has >been looking into this already. We saw the entry on the forum. I will >bring it up in our next development meeting. > >Mark Singh >Senior Engineer >Ipswitch Technical Support >-------------------------------------------- >___________<>< > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Duane Waddle >Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] WUG and IIS > >At 4/7/2002 10:56 PM, you wrote: > > >Dear WhatsUp Technicians and Afeccionados, > > > >Does IPSwitch make (or have they considered making) ISAPI filters for the > >WUG Web files? I would love to be able to browse WUG maps over the Internet > >but am not comfortable using a cleartext password scheme without SSL to > >access something as critical as network administration tools like WUG Web. > > > >It seems to me WUG might benefit from being built compatible with IIS - SSL > >and Windows Authentication being just one class of perk - and this kind of > >architecture could also free up the developers to focus on what WUG does > >well - network monitoring - leaving web server development to Microsoft. > > > >If anything like this is available, or if anyone has any ideas on > >workarounds for serving out WUG Web Maps in a more secure way, please let > >me know. > >Using IIS as a foundation for What's Up seems far less secure than >cleartext passwords.. Code Red anyone? In principle, however, SSL access >to the What's Up web would be sweeet. One thing I'm working on in my >abundant spare time is using STunnel (www.stunnel.org) to act as an SSL >proxy server in front of What's up. The thing you lose this way is What's >Up's per-IP address restrictions. (If using STunnel on a Unix box, you can >substitute with libwrap) > >Hope this helps > >--D > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
