- Oct 25, 2007
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I'm hoping that you guys can help steer me in the right direction for what I'm needing. I've done quite a bit of searching over the past few days and haven't been able to find anything that will work.
The situation is that we provide network/server support for about 50 different clients. At each client we have our own server on their network with a webpage to the outside world locked down so only IPs from either our network or their network can access it.
We frequently need to login to the clients' devices and perform some administrative tasks. The main problem with this is that it is a hassle to connect to the individual VPNs, lookup the credentials then establish a connection using putty. I've been investigating a way to have a console added to our webpage that is able to pull the credentials data from our database. The idea being that since the web server is already on their network and already making automated SSH calls to their servers that we "should" be able to have a console right on the website.
The biggest problem that I've found is that the few packages out there that would do this all seem to be for Linux and/or Apache. Unfortunately, we run Windows Server and IIS. I've considered going the route of installing cygwin on our server and trying to get things up and running, but before I start installing things I figured I'd ask the AT gurus.
I'm not really interested in discussions about possible security implications involved as we've gone over that in quite a bit of detail and gotten the go ahead for a test from our security team.
I've already checked out the following which are either hosted, Linux based, or meant for accessing the server hosting instead of sending out SSH to other devices.
http://www.serfish.com/console/
http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/
http://anyterm.org/index.html
http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/webshell/index.html
Thanks in advance.
-Bob
The situation is that we provide network/server support for about 50 different clients. At each client we have our own server on their network with a webpage to the outside world locked down so only IPs from either our network or their network can access it.
We frequently need to login to the clients' devices and perform some administrative tasks. The main problem with this is that it is a hassle to connect to the individual VPNs, lookup the credentials then establish a connection using putty. I've been investigating a way to have a console added to our webpage that is able to pull the credentials data from our database. The idea being that since the web server is already on their network and already making automated SSH calls to their servers that we "should" be able to have a console right on the website.
The biggest problem that I've found is that the few packages out there that would do this all seem to be for Linux and/or Apache. Unfortunately, we run Windows Server and IIS. I've considered going the route of installing cygwin on our server and trying to get things up and running, but before I start installing things I figured I'd ask the AT gurus.
I'm not really interested in discussions about possible security implications involved as we've gone over that in quite a bit of detail and gotten the go ahead for a test from our security team.
I've already checked out the following which are either hosted, Linux based, or meant for accessing the server hosting instead of sending out SSH to other devices.
http://www.serfish.com/console/
http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/
http://anyterm.org/index.html
http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/webshell/index.html
Thanks in advance.
-Bob
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