ability to limit the UI view to one server

Hi,

I've created a sample UI plugin for oVirt that displays a cockpit UI inside a subtab for a host in oVirt UI.
Please see attached an example screenshot.

I haven't found a way to limit the view to one server only on cockpit side (not via permissions either), so a user is able to navigate inside cockpit UI to "all", and manage all servers in the subtab, and not only the host that was selected in oVirt.

Is there a way to limit the view to a one server only?
If not, are there any plans to add such a functionality?

Please note that there's a bug regarding localhost/IP error resolving, that is also related to the use case of opening the UI for a specific host externally via a direct link.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/439

Thank you!

[Stef Walter]

On 09.04.2014 10:28, Alissa Bonas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've created a sample UI plugin for oVirt that displays a cockpit UI inside a subtab for a host in oVirt UI.
> Please see attached an example screenshot.
>
> I haven't found a way to limit the view to one server only on cockpit side (not via permissions either), so a user is able to navigate inside cockpit UI to "all", and manage all servers in the subtab, and not only the host that was selected in oVirt.
>
> Is there a way to limit the view to a one server only?
> If not, are there any plans to add such a functionality?

I think that sounds like a good idea for embedding. Have you had a
chance to file an issue about this specifically.

Are you working on this right now? In which case I can work with you
next week to get this done. Cool to see Cockpit starting to be used in
other contexts.

Although be aware it's not production ready yet. So it'd be risky to
suggest people try this out in production. But you probably already know
that :)

Stef

[Marius Vollmer]

Stef Walter  writes:
> Are you working on this right now? In which case I can work with you
> next week to get this done.

I think this might do it:

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/466

This allows you to omit the "All" button in the breadcrumb trail by
using a URL like

https://IP:21064/#server
> Cool to see Cockpit starting to be used in other contexts.

Indeed!  I have just talked with Alexander here and they would like to
embed Cockpit into the FreeIPA UI to show logs!

We might need a way to hide our navgation header and maybe add more
options to the URL to control the journal filter, but then this should
be quite feasible as well.