> Oh well I guess I need to come back to earth now. No need to come back to earth at all - neither you nor anyone else who comes to this forum with suggestions or problems. Suggest away. The forum is intended for users to help each other (it's not the official support mechanism) but what gets said does get paid attention to.
I cannot tell you what is upcoming in the future with WhatsUp Gold, but it will be quite yummy. Mark Symons Ipswitch, Inc Augusta GA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Cook Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 15:02 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] External User Auth Well this is defiantly a HACK. If you have another web server running (IIS or Apache) and it can do the type of authentication you want then you could use it. Setup an alias or virtual site. Have this site point to the WUG server. You can do this on a single server if you want. Have your web server on port 80 and WUG on port 8000. Enable whatever logging you want on the web server. You can have a lot better (OK any) logging you want. Once you have your web server porting/passing the WUG server add the authentication to the web server. This will stop unauthorized users from getting to the WUG server threw the web server. Once the authentication in working on the web server set WUG to only allow traffic from the web server. Now anyone who wants to get to WUG has to go threw the web server. They will then be logged and authenticated. Issues with this setup. You will need to turn off user authentication on the WUG server or have users enter 2 passwords. The only time this is an issue is if you have limited what maps certain users can see. You could get around this if you set your web server to pass a user name and password to the WUG server when it requests pages. I have been planning to do this with my apache server, but have not had the time. It would be very nice if we didn't have to do stuff like this. How wonderful the world would be if IPSwitch would just make the WUG web API a PHP module. We could do anything we wanted to. The pages could be formatted with CSS. We could sort the items anyway we wanted, ascending or descending depending on the page. We could sort by any field we want, name, IP, even by type. We could combine WUG info and data from a MySQL database in the same page. We could use any authentication module that our sever or PHP supported. Oh well I guess I need to come back to earth now. Good Luck. Jeff Cook Network Administrator Whatcom Educational Credit Union -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Auger, Jay (IS) Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] External User Auth DEFINITELY! Add my vote for AD/Radius auth. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] External User Auth I don't know if anybody has hacked WUG to do this...... But this functionality would be VERY high on my "new features wanted" list! Would love to hear from Ipswitch on this one too. Bruce "Scott Moseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/2004 10:09 AM Please respond to WhatsUp_Forum To: "Whats Up Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] External User Auth We are expanding our network and incorporating SSO for as many services as possible (Win2K3 Active Directory). Anyone know if WUG has the intention to provide a means for external authentication (AD or maybe RADIUS) in the upcoming releases? Has anyone hacked the interface so that they could auth against their own user database? I know our mgmt would be very happy with WUG if we had the ability to integrate its auth into our own network. Thanks, Scott Moseman 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/
