VISULOX 4 Documentation

How to control access from the command line


Overview

The command line tool "VISULOX policy access" allows to control the Access Policy.


Usage

The following subcommands are available:

Command

Description

list

List and print Access Policies.

fields

List available fields in the database (-raw = enhanced output)

add

Add an Access Policy for a user or a group to the top of the Access Policy list. A ticket string is mandatory. The new access policy can be either "allow" or "deny"

edit

Modify fields of an Access Policy. The modification will not change the position in the Access Policy.

delete

Remove an Access Policy.

purge

Remove outdated entries. Can be used via cron-job.

Access Policy elements (edit)

Element

Description

-mode <>

Mode of access: allow, deny, request, group, disabled. Default value: allow.

-name <>

Name of policy or use AUTO <>

If not defined during add within the command line, a name is generated in the form "BATCH-yyyymmdd-hhmmss". Compared to the GUI, no field validation is done.

-object <>

Policy filter: mask or unique distinguished object of user or group <>

Mandatory in add, update, remove to identify a unique object in the datasource table (attached user repositories).

-applicationgroup <>

Policy filter: mask or applicationgroup name or applicationgroup mask <>

-application <>

Policy filter: mask or application name or application mask <>

-remoteip <>

Policy filter: remote IP or remote IP mask <>

-accesspoint <>

Policy filter: Access Point <>

-ticket <>

Assign ticket to this access <>

Mandatory. In comparison to the GUI, no field validation is done.

-region <>

Name of region in the database. Default value: @LOCAL.

-timeprofile <>

Name of time profile in the database. Default value: 24x7.

-starttime <>

Start of access: now or timestring. Default value: now.

-endtime <>

End of access: endless or timestring. Default value: endless.

-script <>

Trigger script. Usage: -script "<script-name>: args". Example with arguments: -script "Dump: -arg arg -arg1 <>"

-mailinggroup

Name of the preconfigured mailinggroup

-mailinggroup_emails

Individual list of email addresses

-comment <>

Comment for policy. Default value: CLI.

The comment can have multiple lines. "\n" can be used as a line separator.

-grant <>

Set granted user in database record <>


Each usage which changes the Access Policy (add, update, remove, clean) is running in "dry" mode until -run is applied to the command line.

Configuration of ticket ID as a regular expression

It is possible to configure the entry format of the ticket ID as a regular expression:

visulox config -name entry.access.ticketid

    ----------------------------------------------
    | parameter             |      type | value  |
    ----------------------------------------------
    | entry.access.ticketid | OPERATION | ^A-.+$ |
    ----------------------------------------------

Examples

visulox policy access list
    -------------------------------
    | basicname |      policymode |
    -------------------------------
    |    Access | allowaccess.map |
    -------------------------------


visulox policy access fields


visulox policy access list -fields basicname,policymode,acc_script


visulox policy access add -name ACC1 -mode allow -object miller.si@t-online.de -ticket "TK-097612" -endtime "+ 1 month" -run


visulox policy access add -mode deny -name ACC2 -object CN=EXTENAL -ticket "TK-1234" -endtime endless -run


visulox policy access edit -name ACC1 -object cn=partner -run


./visulox policy access edit -name ACC1 -endtime "+ 1 year" \
   -comment "Miller can have access for one year from now.\nHe is a trustfully guy." -run


visulox policy access delete -name ACC1 -run


Disabling the "Send request" button for users:

visulox config -name scx.button.request=false -force