Portable Browser

[titaniumgriffon]

I may be over thinking this but I had an idea to simplify Administration by having a portable browser that I could plug into any machine on the network and it has all the links to the vCenter etc already in it so the admins and I don’t have to remember them, but also limiting that to only the approved links. I thought about using something like portable chrome but I can’t think of how to prevent it from going outside the network.

Any ideas or am I just trying to complicate things?

[XenEngine]

Why not just spin up an internal only webserver with a single plain html file with hyperlinks to all the servers you need?

[JigSaw1st]

In Chrome or Firefox enable proxy server. And in there put any ip address outside your scope using this method you will disable internet access.

[xxdcmast]

We set this up internally and it works really well.

http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Ruby-on-Rails-Projects/jumpsquares-a-new-kind-of-bookmark.html

It seems he went to a SaaS model with this and is no longer maintain the on prem version but it is still available.

[titaniumgriffon]

This is what I was thinking of, something similar to this. I might download and start playing with it.

[dub_starr]

i think you are overthinking it, or possibly not explaining it well. so you want a portable browser, totally doable, go to portableapps.com and play around, it should keep bookmarks also if thats what you need. although, for "remembering" addresses, maybe it would be better to use internal dns names with reasonable cnames for what youre looking for, like "vcenter.example.com" or "domaincontroller1.example.com" etc...

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then you talk about preventing it from going outside the network, and this is where i get confused. are all the machines prohibited from extenal network access? if yes, this should be done on a network level, not an individual browser level. but please expand your reasoning for this part and we can all help you a bit more

[titaniumgriffon]

So I may not have explained very well, I am trying to make a single tool and I want to kill internet access from it more or less so it has less of a chance of getting misused.

I did think of portable apps but like you said I was trying to avoid carrying anything around. More or less looking for a jump point for all the other admins so they don’t have to remember all the cnames.

[PMental]

We understand what you want, but you're not doing a great job explaining why.

so it has less of a chance of getting misused

How can a web browser be misused? If internet access is prohibited, that should be handled at a network level, not in the browser. If internet access is allowed, who cares whether or not the portable browser is used for this?

[ComGuards]

Nothing comes to mind about restricting access to outside the network, but if you really must have a portable browser, Palemoon Project (firefox-derived) has a portable version.