In that way it would be possible to build a FWbuilder module to manage 
m0n0wall appliances from this software. M0n0wall user interface is ok when 
you have no more that 4 or 5 firewalls with static rules, but it is not 
enough when there are many firewalls with rules that can change 
frequently. In that case you need some centralized management.

What do you think about this?

Best regards,
Germán Martín




"Jeroen Visser" <monowall at forty dash two dot nl> 
04/04/2006 08:27

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Wouldn't that be more easy to implement if the next version of m0n0wall 
would have
separate firewall and management processes. If I remember correctly this 
was
something that was discussed when talking about m0n0wall 3.

Something like a soap-xml access to the config process would be helpful 
when
managing large numbers of firewalls from a central point. You could even 
schedule
firmware upgrades and copy users (not captive portal but the role manager) 
from
one template file on such a management machine.

The posibilities are endless. However, when you try to create such 
management
software now, posting variables to certain php pages, changing the 
structure even
a little bit would render such an application useless.

/2cents

Regards,

Jeroen Visser


On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:55:19 -0700, Chris Flugstad wrote
> As to the people who responded about editing the xml files.  That is a
> way to do it.  Just very time consuming.  What the question was, was to
> automate and manage remotely.  Editing a file and logging into each and
> every box would take hours, as well as confusion of which boxes you had
> already logged into.  If you had 30 boxes like Lee here, you'd
> understand why load config files manually would suck.
>
> Basically, Im wondering if there is the ability to have a server that
> could issue config files, and to load the m0n0wall with a basic config
> file which would allow it to boot up and accept a new config file.  This
> would make easy for setting up multiple boxes a day.  Also, if you have
> a change to make across the board, on 30-100 boxes, you dont wanna do
> that manually.  If you dont have a problem, you can volunteer to work
> for me ;)
>
> thanks guys, and keep me posted lee


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