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Hi @all,

I remember I thread not so long ago about things that would be nice in
the upcoming Foreman releases. After working some time with the current 1.1
version I found two things that would really great:

  1. Having a button (maybe connect or so) like the console button for
    managed systems (
    http://theforeman.org/static/images/screenshots/hostpage.png) for all
    Systems starting a configurable local binary with a connection string based
    on the operating system, i.e. rdesktop for Windows Servers and putty for
    Linux servers. So that I'm able to connect to box directly from the Foreman
    dashboard.

  2. Having the possibility to customize the fields displayed in the host
    report. I have custom facts like datacenter and also Foreman entries like
    owner that would be nice to have them displayed as well.

If these points where already mentioned, sorry for the duplicate post, if
not, from my point of view these are really nice features ;).

Regards Thomas

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2

Thomas,

For #2, check out #2235 [1]. This feature request would add a "reporting"
module which would allow you to run custom reports based on fact data.
Please vote it up if you are interested.

[1] - Feature #2235: Reporting Module - Foreman

Thanks,

Josh

··· On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Thomas Bendler wrote:

Hi @all,

I remember I thread not so long ago about things that would be nice in
the upcoming Foreman releases. After working some time with the current 1.1
version I found two things that would really great:

  1. Having a button (maybe connect or so) like the console button for
    managed systems (
    http://theforeman.org/static/images/screenshots/hostpage.png) for all
    Systems starting a configurable local binary with a connection string based
    on the operating system, i.e. rdesktop for Windows Servers and putty for
    Linux servers. So that I’m able to connect to box directly from the Foreman
    dashboard.

  2. Having the possibility to customize the fields displayed in the host
    report. I have custom facts like datacenter and also Foreman entries like
    owner that would be nice to have them displayed as well.

If these points where already mentioned, sorry for the duplicate post, if
not, from my point of view these are really nice features ;).

Regards Thomas

Linux … enjoy the ride!

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Done, just discovered that the first one is also already in the ticket
system as feature request #1933 (Feature #1933: Button to launch RDP, VNC SSH Console - Foreman
).

Regards Thomas

··· 2013/3/22 Josh Baird

[…]
For #2, check out #2235 [1]. This feature request would add a "reporting"
module which would allow you to run custom reports based on fact data.
Please vote it up if you are interested.

–
Linux … enjoy the ride!

4

I wrote a small plugin which adds a new column to the Host Overview page[1]
using Deface. It probably wouldn't be much work to modify it to affect the
summary of an individual Host either… see what you think :slight_smile:

https://github.com/GregSutcliffe/foreman_column_view

Greg

··· On 22 March 2013 09:44, Thomas Bendler wrote:
  1. Having the possibility to customize the fields displayed in the host
    report. I have custom facts like datacenter and also Foreman entries like
    owner that would be nice to have them displayed as well.