From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 23 21:47:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3D014F43 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:47:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (TC1-dial-38-215.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.215.38]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA21437 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:47:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906240447.AAA21437@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreebSD ISP list" Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:48:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Need suggestions. What features needed for admin tool? Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org About a month ago I bought a web based admin tool for FreeBSD called Netmax. It basically presents an HTML front end to DNS, Mail, Samba, backup, IFPW and other services. In talks with the vendor and from comments (or lack thereof) in lists/newsgroups I have not seen anyone else using Netmax. A few ISPs I mentioned it said they had too many custom setups to have a tool like this be helpfull. The question I have is what features would such and admin tool need to have to be attractive to a FreeBSD ISP or a site admin. The makers of this product seem to be very receptive and have talked to them voice a few times. My interest lies in finding how this product can best serve the FreeBSD community. They are coming out with a Linux port and I would hate to see them dropping FreeBSD in the future because it didn't sale enough (i.e. FreeBSD users did not think it was worth buying). The only thing I didn't like was the price. :-( It cost about $500, but at leat in my case it was woth it because the amount of time it would have taken me more than $500 worth my time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message