What is the most awesome module/feature for NethServer, that does not yet exist?

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

I like all these suggestions! What do you think @filippo_carletti?
Thanks guys a lot of stuff here for new developments ;-D

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

What do you think about this? A set of configuration tests to do during the first installation/configuration or after
http://dev.nethserver.org/issues/2683

[sitz (Roberto Sitzia)]

I’d like to be able to populate my shared folders on NethServer directly from admin Web interface.
If data are stored on an old server (Windows or Linux) or NAS or PC I’d like to be able to connect to the source to populate (copying) data to the new destination: NethServer shared folder.
Often this is a huge task and/or that need long time to complete, it could be scheduled at night time or even on the week end.

What do you think?

[sitz (Roberto Sitzia)]

I ask too much if, moreover populating shared folders from admin Web interface, I could be able to populate my email accounts from the old mail server to NethServer through IMAP?

@filippo_carletti what do you think about an UI for imapsync?

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

I started this thread:

Shared folder Posix ACL snapshots

Continuing the discussion from Create a new sharedFolder UI plugin for WEB Settings: One limitation of the current handling of Posix ACLs in the Shared Folder page is the “Reset permissions” action. If there were some special permissions set by a Windows network client through Samba, “Reset permissions” clears them. Only default permissions and settings from ACL tab are retained. I was wondering if we could add a new feature consisting of a new button, Take ACL snapshot, that stores the a…

[PParker (Phil Parker)]

I just installed Nethserver, I do like this distribution so far, but some things I think could be improved if you might listen for a moment.

1. Is there any way to add additional hard drives via the NethServer interface? That is something I would love to see happen if its not there already. I have mine on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 thats maxxed to the gills, and I cannot access my other hard drives if i wanted to, to add them to the distribution.I could not use the premade iso and had to install using CentOs Minimal and go that route.

2.The use of SpamAssassin would be killer where it updates with the proper Domain Blacklists. if is not doing that already. That might be available in an enterprise edition?

3.The use of additional backup programs such as Bacula, Backup Pc is nice, is there plans to add anymore to the plugins as time goes on.

4. The possibility of running Joomla as a plug in, or Elgg would be killer, then again that may take it to another place…just a thought…

5. The idea of having plug-ins like Cacti or something like that for Snort? Something so we can see full range what the IDS is doing in real-time.

6. The idea of running another nic, one green which is active and another one for servers that have two, this would allow one to remain internal and one external on the network when its connected so some features would be on the external connection such as Web Services Email, and IDS.

7. The idea of running an inline honeypot as a plug-in would be wicked…

These are just ideas and a few questions posed… I know this is being developed constantly, so i would think some of this might come to fruition eventually.

Thanks
Phil

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

@jelle

Wow, Observium looks promising! Thanks, I’ll take a look.

@AbsyntH is working on it! looking forward to his howto!

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

Ehi Phil,
first of all, welcome aboard! A lot of proposals for a newcomer

@PParker

The possibility of running Joomla as a plug in, or Elgg would be killer, then again that may take it to another place…just a thought…

This is in roadmap, we have wordpress yet but having joomla could be cool! Let’s start with a simple howto, what do you think?

@PParker

2.The use of SpamAssassin would be killer where it updates with the proper Domain Blacklists. if is not doing that already. That might be available in an enterprise edition?

What do you mean with proper “Domain Blacklists” could you make some examples?

@PParker

Is there any way to add additional hard drives via the NethServer interface?

@giacomo or @filippo_carletti what do you think?

@PParker

The idea of having plug-ins like Cacti or something like that for Snort? Something so we can see full range what the IDS is doing in real-time.

@filippo_carletti is the Snort expert here, hope he can say something about this proposal

@PParker

These are just ideas and a few questions posed… I know this is being developed constantly, so i would think some of this might come to fruition eventually.

Thank you man, really appreciated!

[stephdl (Stéphane de Labrusse)]

@PParker

The use of additional backup programs such as Bacula, Backup Pc is nice, is there plans to add anymore to the plugins as time goes on.

We are working on nethserver-BackupPC currently, I think that the module is workable, enough to be used in a real environment. The enhancements that could/should be done

• Display directly the CGI Interface of backuppc directly in nethgui. Ok it’s just smoke and mirrors, but it’s professional. I don’t know exactly how to do it, I need some suggestions from @davidep and @giacomo
• Add some backup script for windows client about shadow copy, but here I need power users of backuppc with a lot of experiences.

Concerning Bacula, the issue is that there is no gui, of course some are available but you need to follow security updates on your own, It is a bit annoying . I rather prefer something like epel, and others working to maintain rpms.

I don’t know about bacula and its fork bareos (there is less gui for it), first maybe that could be cool to get a strong howto, to debug and show us the way to the nethserver module.

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

@stephdl

first maybe that could be cool to get a strong howto, to debug and show us the way to the nethserver module.

Indeed, we can always follow this workflow

On feature workflow

hi ppl, I see that the features requests are increasing and that’s a great thing, but i fear that we should start to have a bit of confusion if we do not start to fix a workflow for new developments: first of all nehtserver has an external repository for new packages that is http://dev.nethserver.org/projects/nethforge/wiki/NethForge so my proposal of workflow is based on the life-cycle of the backuppc feature request : request plugin howto for installation from external packages package c…

[PParker (Phil Parker)]

Hey thanks for the reply, Joomla is excellent… on the domain blacklists something with White and Blacklisting kinda what spam assassin uses…but downloadable sorta like what they have here
https://www.spamhaus.org/dbl/
This one is more accurate:https://www.spamhaus.org/zen/

Adding additional hard drives to Nethserver would be killer, especially if your running arrays of some kinda so you can back up data as needed running as a mirror helps but once again, backup is very essential, thus the idea of running Bacula came into my thoughts…I know you all are working real hard and I appreciate that, I dont code or i would help out, I know security testing if you want to get me on that end im fine with that… this is the FIRST module set I have seen that shows major promise, I have tested everyone of them. This is amazing what you have done so far, tune it up a little more and its a winner in my book! I know you guys said that bacula has no interface this is true, but it can be achieved via webmin, I dont want to break the package…so i have not tried to install webmin on a different port. If you cant do it, that may be the alternative to run packages along side of this and use both as a control platform or integrate the features.

I know a lot of what CentOS uses can be ported… since i have a minimal install the question becomes, if i put what i want does it break NethServer?

Thanks
Phil

[PParker (Phil Parker)]

On bacula, yes some things that require manual updates are expected you cant ever have zero administration that is ridiculous, ease of administration absolutely!

[PParker (Phil Parker)]

This I see something is that is needed as well…anything realtime would definately improve the package so much better, SNMP helps with a lot with administration

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

@PParker

Hey thanks for the reply, Joomla is excellent…

Do you want start an howto for Joomla? Let’s try it could be fun.

[PParker (Phil Parker)]

Im looking into that so give me some time, I am thinking since i saw a couple of posts before someone installed a package outside of NethServer, I will give it a try and see what happens, porting into the Dashboard maybe something you might have a programmer do, which i am not,I do security testing, but i will do my best to see what i can do. Let me try on my end and then work it from there i am praying I dont break the NethServer Package… if i do not, i can lead into many things in the future. …we shall see…

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

@PParker

Adding additional hard drives to Nethserver would be killer, especially if your running arrays of some kinda so you can back up data as needed running as a mirror helps but once again,

We discussed about a page for managing simple RAID arrays.
The page should allow something like:

• find and replace faulty disks
• create new arrays (raid 1 or 5) where data can be stored

Under the hood the implementation should be fairly simple (just few bash scripts?), but I’m a little concerned about the GUI design: to make it simple, we should probably lose some flexibility.

[PParker (Phil Parker)]

I have webmin in place, as soon as i get this straight its trying for Bacula, I have spamassassin on but not configurated as of yet, it is 2:41am here and I been going for 8+ hours on this… I need some zzz’s and my ISP is coming in to fix the internet so expect me back on it around 6-7pm CST …I will try for Bacula then and report back, so far the only break has been in IPS snort…