Vdetelweb: Telnet and Web management for VDE

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vdetelweb is a web and telnet management tool for vde switches.

It is as the same time a management client for a switch and a TCP server for the network.

A simple way to start a vdetelweb is the following:

$ vdetelweb -web -telnet -f /tmp/vdetelweb.conf /tmp/vde.mgmt

Options have also a compact form:

$ vdetelweb -w -t /tmp/vdetelweb.conf /tmp/vde.mgmt

Where vde.mgmt is the management socket of a vde_switch (option -M of vde_switch) and /tmp/vdetelweb.conf is a configuration file like the following one:

#vdetelweb rc sample
ip=192.168.250.5/24
defroute=192.168.250.1
ip=2001:760:1234:5678::5556/64
defroute=2001:760:1234:5678::1
# to create a new passwd run the following command:
# $ echo -n piripicchio | sha1sum
# typing your passwd instead of "piripicchio"
password=e8b32ad31b34a21d9fa638c2ee6cf52d46d5106b

ip and defroute define the address(es) while password is the sha1sum encoded password. Users can log in to the telnet/web service by using username admin and a password which matches this.

The standard location for the configuration file when vdetelweb runs as root is /etc/vde/vdetelwebrc

A telnet session appears like the following one:

The telnet server provides command completion (using tab), history navigation (up and down arrows) and command editing (left right arrows and delete).

The following picture shows the appearance of a web management page.