Populate Portal

[John A]

So I think this is impossible but let me ask anyhow

We are building a solution that manages our small Wireless ISP (~2k customers). One of the applications we are building is a tool that lets us manage router lists for IP addresses via SSH. ScriptMaster to the rescue!

However, the firewall rules these addresses are mapped to only exist on the router itself. There is no FMP equivelant. We chose this since these rules can also be managed in the field at the command line so there was no nice way to keep them in sync. Managing these would be easiest to do in a Portal layout. Is there a way to have ScriptMaster populate a portal based on the results of a scriptmaster function? This would let me get my list of firewall rules from a router and display directly in the layout.

My other two options are:

1) Create a table and synchronize it regularly using ScriptMaster (not very reliable)

2) Write my own little list widget that runs in a JDialog (current fallback plan)

So, anyone have any ideas on how to get my own list data into a portal?

John-

[John A]

Just to close this loop. I wrote my only little widget in a JDialog. Quick simple and it works well. It pops up out of FMP and lets us manage thousands of wireless customers.

Pretty slick.

J