Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:53:49 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: FreebSD ISP list <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need suggestions. What features needed for admin tool? Message-ID: <19990625105349.C28336@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199906242350.TAA10704@arutam.inch.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:52:08PM -0400 References: <199906242350.TAA10704@arutam.inch.com>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:52:08PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:49:39 -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > >I looked at the web page and online demo, and it seems like a > >prettied-up analogue of webmin. > > I didn't know about webmin. Will install it home to check it out. > > >...easy configuration of groups of similar machines, and groups of > >groups, etc. etc., it didn't seem to do. Its 'machine groups' > >section seemed pretty weak. > > Can you elaborate? > Netmax supports the concept of Masters. > > >From the Netmax FAQ: > > ....The NetMAX master maintains the following information and > distributes it to all slaves during a commit: > > users > machines > machine groups > domains > password policies > > On the other hand, the NetMAX slave maintains its own information for: > user defaults > user groups > > Are you looking for something simmilar to Netware's NDS or something to > replicate a machine? (i.e. create a web server and have the entire > setup repliated to a group of other computers..) yes, like the NDS (i'm familiar with the one from netware v3.12) in glorious full ansi text mode .. grin. but seriously, please include a curses version if you are doing a "gui", that is an X11 version. some of us admins don't (can't) run X11 front ends on our server(s). regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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