Customizable action buttons in VISULOX Cockpit / Objects

A customizable action for example is selecting a user in VISULOX Cockpit / Objects / Users and start a shell script to reset the password of the selected user.

There are 5 buttons for which an individual script can be set. These buttons can be arranged individually on the VISULOX Cockpit / Objects pages for users, groups and applications (other GUI parts on request).

Each button needs four elements:

Element	Description
Place in GUI	do-users, do-groups and do-application can be used to place the buttons (others on request)
Text for the button	Short free text
Description	The description text is presented as the tooltip
Selection type	Flag can be none or single. If single is used, a selection in the GUI is needed and the selection content is passed to the script.

Configuration parameters in VISULOX

Configuration parameters

CODE

visulox config -name vlxgui.buttonscript.0="do-users:Remove:Remove user from Datasource:single"
visulox config -name vlxgui.buttonscript.1="do-users:Reset:Reset password:single"

Button script

A template is available: /opt/visulox/tools/buttonscript.sh.template

This template should be renamed to buttonscript.sh.

Notes on the buttonscript:

When the button is pressed, /opt/visulox/tools/buttonscript.sh is called.
The script has the VLX parameters of the selection.
The script has the calling user data.
The script has the button index.
The script can have an error code and an text on stdout. This is presented to the user in the GUI.
The script runs with "vlx" ID (not with transit vlx id).

buttonscript.sh.template

CODE

#!/bin/bash
########################################################################
#  Copyright (c) amitego engineering GmbH, www.amitego.com
########################################################################
#
# This is the general button action script.
# With the configuration several buttonscripts can be defined within the GUI.
# All of them are calling the same script. The script has general data
# + data based on the selection.
# General data:
#   VLXSCRIPTCALLER
#   VLXSCRIPTCALLER_FMT
#   VLXSCRIPTCALLERLOGIN
#
#   VLXSCRIPTID       : The buttonscript ID from the configuration vlxgui.buttonscript.<VLXSCRIPTID>
#   VLXSCRIPTGROUP    : Groupname in the definition
#   VLXSCRIPTTEXT     : Buttontext in the definition

set -E
trap 'exit 255' ERR
exec 2>&1

debug () {
    (
    echo "--------- $(date) -------------"
    env | grep VLX
    ) >> /tmp/buttonscript.log
}
cmd0 () {
    echo "Buttonscript 0: $VLXSCRIPTTEXT"
}
cmd1 () {
    echo "Buttonscript 1: $VLXSCRIPTTEXT"
}
cmd2 () {
    echo "Buttonscript 2: $VLXSCRIPTTEXT"
}
cmd3 () {
    echo "Buttonscript 3: $VLXSCRIPTTEXT"
}
cmd4 () {
    echo "Buttonscript 4: $VLXSCRIPTTEXT"
}
#debug
cmd$VLXSCRIPTID
echo "Done"
exit 0

Reset / test buttons for Objects / Users

Several reset and test buttons for OTP and LDAP / AD users are available;

With the Reset PWD button it is possible to reset the password for LDAP / Active Directory users.

Password reset for Unix users is not possible.

Host / Service button for VISULOX Cockpit / Objects / Applications

With the Host / Service button in VISULOX Cockpit / Objects / Applications the SSH and RDP Connection to application servers can be checked:

Reload Objects button

On all Object pages a Reload Objects button is displayed. With this button the reload of the LDAP import can be triggered by the user.