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Lynx Connectors

Compliance-agnostic framework for saved connections to external systems, with a pluggable per-system registry and a shared REST/JSON client.

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lynx_connectors · v19.0.1.0.0 · Standard Beta

What this solves

Lynx Connectors

A saved-connection framework any Lynx app can build on. A connection to an external system - a monitoring platform, cloud provider, IdP or SIEM - is configured once as a lynx.connector record and then read by any app through a small Python registry, so the same Zabbix or Datadog connection serves the status page and the compliance evidence collectors alike.

This module holds only the plumbing. Provider modules (lynx_connector_zabbix and friends) register their own type and answer resource queries; consuming apps call connector.list_resources(...) and receive a unified result shape.

Key Features

  • Connection registry - lynx.connector stores endpoint, credentials and free-form JSON config, one record per external system instance.

  • Pluggable types - connector types are a Python registry; each provider module registers its own BaseConnector subclass keyed by a stable code.

  • Shared REST client - RestConnector factors out the JSON-over-HTTPS client, response-shape guards, OAuth2 token exchange and three pagination dialects so a provider supplies only its URLs and auth.

  • Test-connection action - one-click connectivity check from the form.

  • Secret indirection - implementations read the secret through _get_secret(), an override hook for a Barbican / Vault backend.

Integrates With

  • lynx_connector_* - provider-specific implementations.

  • lynx_status_page - reads component health from a connection.

  • lynx_compliance_connectors - the compliance evidence bridge builds on it.

Integrations

Lynx Connectors works with 2 other modules

Each bridge ships separately so you only install what your team uses.

Lynx Compliance - Connectors (External Data Sources)

Wires the shared Lynx connector framework into compliance evidence collectors, and gates the evidence connectors behind compliance.pro.

Lynx Compliance - Navigation Bridge: Connectors

Auto-install bridge that slots the Connectors menus into the CSF 2.0 compliance navigation when lynx_compliance_connectors is present.

Depends on

mail lynx_license_enforcer lynx_base base

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