managing servers...

[Erik Hemdal]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bruce [mailto:bedouglas at earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:31 PM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'; 'Erik Hemdal'
> Subject: RE: managing servers...
> 
> appreciate the info...
> 
> however, i wasn't looking at how someone would setup an oscar 
> type of situation... my issue is what tootls would one use to 
> easily configure a server/multiple servers...
> 

Yes, I didn't think you were going down the OSCAR road, and I was a bit
wondering how it came up. 

> as far as i can tell.. there are apps that are good at 
> certain functionality (control panels), nogios, etc... nut 
> you don't have a good comprehensive tool that would allow 
> someone to easily setup a really good ftp/webserver/etc.. and 
> know that it's solid...
> 
> linux still requires a great deal of hand/command line 
> functions to make it work...
> 

I think that's right. 

> i'm envisioning an open source kind of app that combines 
> functionality of the control panel (cpanel/plesk/etc..) with 
> what's going on at sourcelabs...
> with the ability to mangage the network.. and all of this fro 
> a gui kind of interface..
> 

I recall using integrated apps for system management (SMIT on AIX, SAM on
HP-UX, etc.) but I have not seen any all-in-one apps/system/network tool for
all the "usual server suspects" one might want.  That would be a cool thing.

Erik