Read Only monitoring with The Dude

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So I installed The Dude Server on a VM, I installed The Client on my PC. I discovered my network. Now I’d like to make the discovered network map available to any employee on my network BUT I don’t want to give them the password to the admin account .

I tried to create a READ ONLY user but that user can’t get to the MAP - Am I doing something Wrong ?

The idea is to put a large monitor on the wall in our office so all can see the MAP and know if a service is down

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What you are describing is how we use Dude in my organisation. A number of different “full” access accounts that can manage the monitoring of various systems that they have responsibility for and a couple of “read only” accounts that most people that just need to see what is going on use. The “read only” account does have some unexpected restriction (like can’t initiate a ping, etc), but it is able to access all the maps.

The issue you may be experiencing is that when the user first connects to Dude, it starts without any map selected. You have to go down the left panel to the Maps section and then select the map you want to look at. The “read only” account also is not able to save its start configuration, so it always opens at a blank page. I worked around this issue by initially creating the users account with “full” permission, log on with that account, select the start map that you want and then log off. Log on with the admin account and change the users account to “read only”. Next time the “read only” account logs on it will open at the start map.

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Thank you I will try this

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The Dude is not opening at the start map but the end user can get there and it is read only

Is there a setting that I can set what the default start map is for the end user ?

Thanks again

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If I recall correctly, think I got around this last time by adding “Test” to the read only user policy

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Thanks for the reply, Test is already ticked on the read only policy

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Sorry - don’t know how to set a default start page - apart from what I described above. Note that I am using Dude 4b3 running on a Win 2012 server - so could be different to what you see if you are running a later version on Mikrotik ROS