Unimus wishlist...

[wazza]

Hi there,

So I've got the latest version running. I can see myself using it quite a bit (we have thousands of devices out there, and our current backup solution works, but is not particularly user friendly)...

I've got a few suggestions of things I'd like to see, in no particular order:-

* Telnet support - we have a quite a few older devices that are never going to be ssh
* Groups. It would be nice to group devices.
* Searching - be nice to search based on the description, and group, not just the IP
* Support multiple devices behind a single IP on different ports (and no VPN is never going to be allowed at some)
* Email a backup (select, one click email through to a specified address)
* Email / download a selection of backups, perhaps as some sort of zip archive?
* Specific credentials on a device (some of our devices have the same username with different permissions)
* Retention of backups (last 30 days, last 30 backups, etc. overridable on a per device / group basis)
* Export settings and backup database, to be re-imported in a new instance

I'm sure there are other things, but just my first thoughts...

Rgds,
W.

[Tomas]

Hey there.

Searching - be nice to search based on the description, and group, not just the IP

This should already work. Search should search all fields in the device table.
There are however currently 2 bugs:
https://tracker.unimus.net/browse/UN-47 and https://tracker.unimus.net/browse/UN-65

Export settings and backup database, to be re-imported in a new instance

This can be done. All settings are in '/etc/unimus' ('C:\ProgramData\Unimus' on Windows).
If using HSQL DB, the DB files are also there.
So you can just take files from there, move to different system, and start it.

Telnet support

I was initially against this, but we have had quite a few requests.
So telnet support is now officially a go, but it will take some time to implement.
I would guess end of Q1 2017

Groups. It would be nice to group devices.

This is something we definatelly want to do, Q2 2017 would be my estimate

Support multiple devices behind a single IP on different ports

This is currently not planned due to the amount of effort implementing this would require (since single IP = singe device is a strong concept and assumption in the code).
See this topic for discussion: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=51#p136

Email a backup

Email, Pushover and Slack support for failed backup (and other) notifications is coming in 0.3.0 (release aimed at 2nd week of January)
So sending a backup over any of those should be easy.
I will see if we can make that into 0.3.0 - see progress at https://tracker.unimus.net/browse/UN-81

Email / download a selection of backups, perhaps as some sort of zip archive?

We can do that for 0.3.1 - see progress at https://tracker.unimus.net/browse/UN-82

Specific credentials on a device

This is planned, I would estimate Q2 2017.

Retention settings for backups

Planned - estimate Q1 2017