topic Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI in Array Setup and Networking

Auto Login Nimble GUI

mfoster16 — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:27:18 GMT

Is there a way to pass the password in the URL to auto login to the nimble gui for a display screen?

(understand the security risk around the password being plain text in the url etc)

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

jrich52352 — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:42:37 GMT

there doesnt seem to be an easy way... they've got a lot of spiffy javascript going on that will make it pretty tricky...

why are you looking to auto login?

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

mfoster16 — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:45:55 GMT

Just to have it on the monitoring screen so we can see it...and also it looks impressive when people come in (mainly the second reason)

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

jrich52352 — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:13:34 GMT

I find that it doesnt log me out, so if its on a monitoring screen it should be fine as long as you leave it open. i just worked in my session from yesterday without a problem

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

aherbert23 — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:22:52 GMT

Under the administration menu you could up the inactivity timeout. Then once a session is created and the cookie stored you could load the UI without a subsequent login. The default is 30 minutes of inactivity.

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

mfoster16 — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:29:42 GMT

Yeah we know we can just keep it open but when you have a rotation of 6 or so screens with different monitoring tools you want them all to automatically log in each day rather than log them all in on a morning...id prefer to be in the queue for my bacon sarnie than logging in screens on a morning

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

jrich52352 — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:37:25 GMT

im sure it could be done, but you'd have to sort through the javascript to get IDs on the box/button to automate it.. there are probably some tools out there that would do it. there is a powershell module WASP designed for automation of things like this.. and i know Visual Studio has some built in tools for creating unit tests that would do it... i have to imagine there are some other more generic options out there

Re: Auto Login Nimble GUI

srich100 — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:31:57 GMT

>> Is there a way to pass the password in the URL to auto login to the nimble gui for a display screen?

No.

There are tools like Selenium that we use for GUI testing that can automate user actions such as entering the password and clicking the login button.