Presentation.en.md

Presentation

This solution provides a modern web interface to centralize and simplify reading log files from remote machines. The application is designed for easy installation (Dockerized) and includes a simple privilege system to control user access.

Table of contents

• Diagram
• Features
• Roles
• Database
• Security

Diagram

graph LR
    A[Flask container] <--> C[Server]
    B[(MariaDB container)] <--> C

    C --> D[Client]
    C --> E[Client]
    C --> F[...]
    C --> G[Client]

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Features

1. Logging
   • Read one or multiple files at once.
   • From one or many client machines.
   • Results sorted by timestamp (descending).
   • Errors displayed. (SSH connection failure, permission problems on remote machine).
   • Manage the list of log file paths available from the web UI.
2. Machines management
   • Add a machine (hostname, IP).
   • Edit a machine.
   • Remove a machine.
3. Users management
   • Add a user (username, role and password).
   • Edit a user.
   • Remove a user.

Roles

Role	Privileges
User	View logs
Manager	View logs Manage machines
Administrator	View logs Manage machines Manage users Manage the list of log files

Database

The database is pre-populated with example data to help testing and onboarding. Example accounts are provided for quick tests but should be removed before going to production.

Login	Password
admin	admin
manager	manager
user	user

(You can remove these seed entries from the web interface.)

Security

1. User passwords are hashed (SHA-256).
2. An encryption key is used to secure sessions, cookies and form submissions.
3. A helper script is provided to ease per-file permission management on client machines.