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Development and Code Review / Re: New Plugin: NMAP Scanner
« on: February 11, 2018, 04:52:29 pm »
here is a thought, since im apparently a moron here in how to setup proper, non static plugins, if someone wants to be so gracefull and helpfull, and either show me how, or make the needed changes to the nmap plugin i wrote and send me the modified version back so i can disect it and compare the differences and see how to do it for myself, then i might be able to be more usefull.
As for the pfmonitor plugin, its simple, you dont have a shell command function in the web ui, thus i cant print easy instructions for my users to install my plugin for monitoring their systems, without making them break down into ssh and such, when for pfsense installs it takes literally 5 seconds. its a large handicap for people using my platform if they rightfully decide to use opnsense instead of pfsense. It makes their and my job a lot harder, and if they could simple hit a plugin sign under plugins and be done, it would make so much of their jobs a lot easier.
I have 500+ firewalls from clients reporting to my platform, and adding more each month, so what your asking me, is to ask them, to ssh manually into each one, and using the shell install it manually. which means i spend more time doing tech support for the ones who cannot figure it out themselves, and they get more frustrated with opnsense for this issue, and despite the JIM issue, because of this, they see a clear advantage in pfsense in that it takes so much less time and effort to get my plugin loaded.
I am one guy, i DO NOT have any staff under my pfmonitor project, no one. I do all the tech support myself over email and phone, and right now 90% of the calls are, i cant get my opnsense unit to report in. meaning they couldnt get the plugin loaded themselves. Thankfully the operations of the platform have been built to be 90% autonomous and self maintaining, else i would have no free time at all.
Now im sorry for the frustration expressed in these posts, but here it is in my prospective, ive been trying to get my plugin in with you guys for months, Franco even provided generous help and a skeleton for the checkin plugin and everything, awsome on him for that. I have been staying up late at night getting it all working and tested. and working on it in lieu of time i usually use for sleep. And this morning come to find all of it rejected....
As for the pfmonitor plugin, its simple, you dont have a shell command function in the web ui, thus i cant print easy instructions for my users to install my plugin for monitoring their systems, without making them break down into ssh and such, when for pfsense installs it takes literally 5 seconds. its a large handicap for people using my platform if they rightfully decide to use opnsense instead of pfsense. It makes their and my job a lot harder, and if they could simple hit a plugin sign under plugins and be done, it would make so much of their jobs a lot easier.
I have 500+ firewalls from clients reporting to my platform, and adding more each month, so what your asking me, is to ask them, to ssh manually into each one, and using the shell install it manually. which means i spend more time doing tech support for the ones who cannot figure it out themselves, and they get more frustrated with opnsense for this issue, and despite the JIM issue, because of this, they see a clear advantage in pfsense in that it takes so much less time and effort to get my plugin loaded.
I am one guy, i DO NOT have any staff under my pfmonitor project, no one. I do all the tech support myself over email and phone, and right now 90% of the calls are, i cant get my opnsense unit to report in. meaning they couldnt get the plugin loaded themselves. Thankfully the operations of the platform have been built to be 90% autonomous and self maintaining, else i would have no free time at all.
Now im sorry for the frustration expressed in these posts, but here it is in my prospective, ive been trying to get my plugin in with you guys for months, Franco even provided generous help and a skeleton for the checkin plugin and everything, awsome on him for that. I have been staying up late at night getting it all working and tested. and working on it in lieu of time i usually use for sleep. And this morning come to find all of it rejected....
