How ruby can solve this:network programming

B

BENI

I am not sure whether this is ruby question or networking question..
but this group is so resourceful that I came over for some help onto
it.

We have developed a ROR application that pulls data from a Network
element and generates Hourly dashboard for the element.

There are 25 such elements spread ac the country.

Apache/Mongrel combination is used in each of these dashboard
generating machines.

Upto this it is fine...

Now... the requirement is users who are suppose to access the
application should be capable of reaching any of these machines for
visibility of DASHBOARD.

Problem is... the application server resides in a domain ... whereas
users need to access it from the same domain or another domain which
the firewall policy of the org does not permit.

We have at our disposal one server (WINDOWS IIS) which can talk to
both of these domains.

What we need is ... some kind of code sitting on this server that can
proxy/forward etc to the corresponding dashboard generating ROR
application.

I hope i have been able to state the problem clearly.

Any help/pointer/tutrial on how to acheive this would be great.

Cheers
 
R

rajib

I am not sure whether this is ruby question or networking question..
but this group is so resourceful that I came over for some help onto
it.

We have developed a ROR application that pulls data from a Network
element and generates Hourly dashboard for the element.

There are 25 such elements spread ac the country.

Apache/Mongrel combination is used in each of these dashboard
generating machines.

Upto this it is fine...

Now... the requirement is users who are suppose to access the
application should be capable of reaching any of these machines for
visibility of DASHBOARD.

Problem is... the application server resides in a domain ... whereas
users need to access it from the same domain or another domain which
the firewall policy of the org does not permit.

We have at our disposal one server (WINDOWS IIS) which can talk to
both of these domains.

What we need is ... some kind of code  sitting on this server that can
proxy/forward etc to the corresponding dashboard generating ROR
application.

I hope i have been able to state the problem clearly.

Any help/pointer/tutrial on how to acheive this would be great.

Cheers

can any one pl share some ideas
 
M

Mike Stephens

Firstly this seems like a political rather than technical problem. Get
the firewall changes made and you need to do nothing else.

After that Option a) is to change the Rails application so that the
dashboard functionality is presented as a web service. I would imagine
Rails can be used to do that - it seems quite a comprehensive framework
from what I've seen of it. You can then call that service from a
Rails(?) app on your IIS server.

Option b) is to use the IIS server to script the Rails apps. You can use
raw HTML or a browser (eg Watir).
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Members online

No members online now.

Forum statistics

Threads
473,744
Messages
2,569,482
Members
44,901
Latest member
Noble71S45

Latest Threads

Top