Add Full Website and iDRAC/iLO Console Capabilities to Built-In Remote Management Feature on RDP Entries
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Hello,
There is a feature I recently found , if we go in the properties of an RDP entry under View -> Remote Management, we can configure some settings for a physical server's iDRAC or iLO:
This results in a tab being added to the device's dashboard with the name we give which will open the site specified, which is great. However, as you can see, the site has no website toolbar like a normal website entry does (where we can do things like re-fill credentials on-demand, open new tabs, refresh/forward/back, etc.).
Also, as you can see in the first screenshot above, it doesn't have quite the full amount of settings that an actual website entry has. It actually reminds me of the similar "iDRAC (web)" entry type (as far as which options it has, and the fact it has no toolbar), which although it works, I asked a similar question about that type recently and was recommended to use the website entry instead, since it has more functionality (which, as I replied there, has worked well for me).
So with that in mind, I'm wondering if there's some way we could make the above feature (adding a custom tab in the entry's dashboard for iDRAC/iLO) be able to utilize the full functionality of a website entry? For example, rather than having the few settings manually defined in the View -> Remote Management settings like they are currently, if we could instead perhaps just set the tab title and then have an option to link that tab to an existing website template - so we could define all necessary settings in the template, and the custom tab would just use those - I think that would work well.
To take it a step further, adding the ability to add multiple custom tabs (and thus link multiple custom templates, perhaps even of different types) to a single RDP entry would be really cool. Because then for example we could have one custom tab that would open the server's iDRAC website, and another that would open the server's iDRAC console, etc. If these custom tabs could support at least "website", iDRAC console and iLO console types that would be awesome.
Even better would be if we had the option to open/focus those dashboard subtabs from the entry's right-click menu (in the navigation tree) somehow as well.
Edit - But since we can open the iDRAC or iLO console from the website, just having the ability to link custom website templates at first would be a big help. The ability to add additional tabs for direct access to iDRAC or iLO console would be cool but not as important I think, at least for me.
Currently I think I would just use subentries as a workaround to achieve this but having the ability to have all that integrated into the dashboard for a single entry (without that entry needing to have more entries below it in the tree which I think sometimes confuses people) would be really useful, I think.
Thanks in advance for the consideration.
Best regards,
David Willis
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Hello David,
Thank you for the request. I think it could be interesting to have this. As you say, maybe it can work with templates provided they're of the "website" type.
I'm imagining you could configure a list of templates with associated names in your entry, where the name would be the name of the tab, and the template would be used to open the website when you click the tab in the dashboard.
One thing I'm worried about is the usage of too many Webview2 controls, as well as handling local cache for the browser. Since it would be loaded in the dashboard, rather than an opened tab, there might be issues regarding performance. We would have to ensure this is smooth.
Regardless, I've opened an internal ticket for this. At the moment, I can't give you an estimate on when we would be working on this, but as always, we're keeping an eye out for additional feedback to help us prioritize this.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault