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Web Administration Dashboard

Al_Stu34

We have just purchased Enterprise Console 4.x and I would like to make the admin console dashboard available on a website.  I would like to then give the web address to those administrators that need to access the console so that each admin doesn't need to log on locally to the server to perform necessary tasks.  I appreciate any help available.

Al

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    Hi,

    Currently the options I can see to share out Enterprise Console as a web based application are:

    1. Use Citrix, to publish EnterpriseConsole.exe

    2. Use Remote Desktop Services as part of Win 2008 to publish EnterpriseConsole.exe, you can then access this over HTTP.

    3. Write a custom web application using something like PHP/ASP, etc.. to expose just the information in the database you require admins to access.  This would just be a viewer though and you wouldn't be able to action anything such as Cleanup, Update Now, etc. as that would require integration with the Sophos Management service. 

    To make things a little simpler, this could even just be a scheduled script that dumps the required information from the SOPHOS4 database into a html file which is share out using Apache/IIS. 

    I would therefore suggest the following in order:

    1. Citrix if you have it.

    2. Remote Desktop Services if SEC is installed on Win 2008.  Even if it's not currently you could install a remote Enterprise Console on a 2008 server and share that out.  It wouldn't need to be the Management Server.

    3. Write a custom application but this depends on what level of access and what informaiton you wish to give.

    I hope that gives you an option you could try.

    Regards

    Jak

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    Hi,

    Currently the options I can see to share out Enterprise Console as a web based application are:

    1. Use Citrix, to publish EnterpriseConsole.exe

    2. Use Remote Desktop Services as part of Win 2008 to publish EnterpriseConsole.exe, you can then access this over HTTP.

    3. Write a custom web application using something like PHP/ASP, etc.. to expose just the information in the database you require admins to access.  This would just be a viewer though and you wouldn't be able to action anything such as Cleanup, Update Now, etc. as that would require integration with the Sophos Management service. 

    To make things a little simpler, this could even just be a scheduled script that dumps the required information from the SOPHOS4 database into a html file which is share out using Apache/IIS. 

    I would therefore suggest the following in order:

    1. Citrix if you have it.

    2. Remote Desktop Services if SEC is installed on Win 2008.  Even if it's not currently you could install a remote Enterprise Console on a 2008 server and share that out.  It wouldn't need to be the Management Server.

    3. Write a custom application but this depends on what level of access and what informaiton you wish to give.

    I hope that gives you an option you could try.

    Regards

    Jak

    :2790
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