Dynamic Vaults / Consolidate vaults in one view
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We recently switched over from a classic RDM <> MSSQL setup with 40.000+ entries to an RDM <> Devolutions Server setup with 200+ users in different business units that use RDM in a different way. We were forced to split up our connections into multiple vaults because it's not possible to set a data timeout in RDM when connecting to DVLS. RDM could connect to DVLS but retrieval of all the settings took too long, resulting in timeouts...
The problem we have now, is that several colleagues have to switch regularly from one vault to another when working for two or more customers that are not in the same vault and I'm hearing a lot of complaints.
It would be great if users could put together their own 'vault', based on a search query (for example), resulting in a tree view showing only those entries or folders with their child-entries. I know we have 'favorites' but
- you still need to switch between vaults to copy credentials or other information
- you can't set a folder as a favorite and have all the entries in that folder and subfolders shown
Another solution for us would be to have a treeview that consolidates multiple vaults without having to switch to another vault to open the connection or query properties.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Hello Thomas,
I hear you loud and clear.
The good news is that we started, a few versions ago, to refactor/rework the code to support most of the options you mentioned above. As part of this effort, we enabled background vault sync in RDM (more info here).
The ultimate goal is to allow loading multiple vaults at once in the tree view, similar to how SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) operates. To achieve this, we needed—and in some cases have already completed—rewriting older code to support multiple active vaults. For example, this includes enabling RDM to resolve the permissions of an entry without it being the current vault. The current internal code did not support this functionality as it predates the introduction of vault support.
To give you an idea of the potential impact of these changes, here are some possible features—none of which have been approved yet by the product team, but they give you an idea of what could eventually be enabled:
- Run synchronizers for all vaults in the background
- Allow synchronizers to write to a different vault
- Cross-vault credential linking
- Load multiple vaults in the tree view
- Edit/view passwords for any entry in the favorites tab
I am currently working on this project full-time. The current goal is to complete all the rework for the 2025.1 release and then start adding features in 2025.2 that leverage these new capabilities.
2 - You can't set a folder as a favorite and have all the entries in that folder and subfolders shown
This is something we’d need to think about; I’m not sure if we can handle it eventually.
Best regards,
Stéfane Lavergne
Thank you Stéfane, that sounds fantastic!