[TYPO3] a thought about security announcements and automatic security alert

[Jeff Segars]

Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
>> I've had some similar ideas bouncing around in my head for a couple 
>> months, but haven't found the time to actually do anything with them :)
> 
> :-)
> 
>> I've approached it from the perspective of the Extension Manager and 
>> having a master EM that cuts across all TYPO3 sites on a server. When 
>> selecting an extension, the administrator would see the other TYPO3 
>> sites that have that extension present and would push updates through 
>> to each TYPO3 site (or maybe only a few selected ones).
>>
>> We've developed a couple command line scripts to update a specific 
>> extension on a TYPO3 site, so my next logical progression was 
>> triggering these scripts from a master EM.
>>
>> If most of the management is extension related, then there may be some 
>> value in piggybacking on the extension EM functionality.
> 
> My idea is more centered around a survey of TYPO3 installs rather than 
> remote management, although the 2 are not mutually exclusive. As such 
> I'm thinking about a separate module rather than adding features to the 
> EM, which is already quite crowded IMO.

Good point about survey vs. remote management.  The EM may be the most 
logical place to performa actions but isn't the best place to get an 
overview of data.

> About triggering scripts remotely, I have recently released an alpha 
> version of an extension called "Remote server" which enables the TYPO3 
> BE to receive and respond to remote calls. It is heavily based on the 
> work Benni did for unifying AJAX calls in the BE, since this is very 
> similar. It makes very easy to call a remote TYPO3 install and get a 
> feedback. I am thinking of using this for the survey engine. It would be 
> easy to call your scripts with it too (BTW at T3DD08 I discussed the 
> opportunity with Benni to include that in 4.3 core and he's quite 
> positive about it, we just need to find some time ;-) ).

Sounds very cool and I will definitely check that out.  If I only I 
could have made it to T3DD08 :)

Let me know as your set up forge and things like that; both the survey 
and remote management side hold some interest for me.


Thanks,
Jeff