Add configuration wizard

[mrash]

It would probably be helpful for users to have a basic configuration wizard for both the client and server. For example, this could drive the client --save-rc-stanza functionality, but without requiring the user to understand all of the command line args to set up the .fwknoprc file.

[jp-bennett]

@mrash I could add a fwknopd wizard function to fwknop-gui. It would be similar to the openwrt interface. After running it, perhaps it would display the completed access.conf and fwknopd.conf so an end user could copy and paste the config as needed.

A command line version would also be helpful, I think.

[fjoncourt]

I was thinking about a fwknop server user interface.

So far, I have set up a first a application (proof of concept) around two components:
  * a back-end server connected to a database
  * a front-end user interface that displays data from the back-end server as a web site

Technologies:
* back-end server runs with Apache / Tomcat / Java / PostgreSQL
* front end user interface runs with html / css / ...

What would be the use cases? I mean, what capabilities people would expect the administration user interface to provide?

For such an admin interface, I'd say it would be great to have the following:

• access.conf stanza generation and validation
• ability to create encryption and authentication keys
• process status of existing fwknopd process
• display of syslog messages from any running fwknopd instance? This could be extended to graph who is sending SPA packets and what services they are accessing over time for example.

[jp-bennett]

Related is #175 . Adding a database back end would make this much simpler. Also, I'd like to avoid Java for the official solution. My $.02

[fjoncourt]

Then, what back-end technology would you choose/prefer/recommend?

2016-07-26 20:54 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Bennett [email protected]:

Related is #175 https://github.com/mrash/fwknop/issues/175 . Adding a database back end would make this much simpler. Also, I'd like to avoid Java for the official solution. My $.02

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[fjoncourt]

Database management with Java is quite easy with hibernate/c3p0

• No SQL query to write.
• Session management is done with one file
• Table mapping is done through annotations