Help with web dashboard

[Chris]

I've written some python scripts to handle different tasks on my Windows
network. I would like for them to be accessible via a single web page
(kind of like a dashboard) but have the scripts run on the web server
(also a Windows box).

Can anyone recommend a way (web server / language / method) of doing
this?

Security is important since this page will be accessible inside the
company, but only people with the appropriate user name / password
should be able to run the scripts.

[Larry Bates]

Re: Help with web dashboard

I don't know how complicated that you want to get, but Zope has
built in support for a control panel with what are called portlets.
Each portlet can act as an individual sub-window on the control
panel. You convert each of your individal scripts to a portlet
and plug them into a control panel page.

Larry Bates


Chris wrote:[color=blue]
> I've written some python scripts to handle different tasks on my Windows
> network. I would like for them to be accessible via a single web page
> (kind of like a dashboard) but have the scripts run on the web server
> (also a Windows box).
>
> Can anyone recommend a way (web server / language / method) of doing
> this?
>
> Security is important since this page will be accessible inside the
> company, but only people with the appropriate user name / password
> should be able to run the scripts.[/color]

[Fuzzyman]

Re: Help with web dashboard

Ifd you want to use standard CGI I've written a CGI user
authentication/management module called logintools.

See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/logintools.html
Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

[Chris]

Re: Help with web dashboard

In article <1106924984.507 889.265070@c13g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
fuzzyman@gmail. com says...[color=blue]
> Ifd you want to use standard CGI I've written a CGI user
> authentication/management module called logintools.
>[/color]

Would this be preferred (or easier) than using an application server
(ie. Zope or Webware)?

If possible, I think it would be nice if the security aspect of it was
already built-in so I would not need to write/test it myself.

Thanks for your help.

[Fuzzyman]

Re: Help with web dashboard


Chris wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <1106924984.507 889.265070@c13g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
> fuzzyman@gmail. com says...[color=green]
> > Ifd you want to use standard CGI I've written a CGI user
> > authentication/management module called logintools.
> >[/color]
>
> Would this be preferred (or easier) than using an application server
> (ie. Zope or Webware)?
>
> If possible, I think it would be nice if the security aspect of it[/color]
was[color=blue]
> already built-in so I would not need to write/test it myself.
>
> Thanks for your help.[/color]


For simple applications, writing CGIs is going to be quite a lot easier
than using something like Zope. If your final product is big and
complex then CGIs probably aren't suitable anyway.

logintools is a module providing user authentication/administration and
user management specifically for CGIs.
Regards,


Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml