Robert Larson wrote: [snipped a lot of good ideas] > This may not be the next step, but the next step might lead to this. Indeed, but a good start might be looking at CIM/WBEM[1]. Evaluating sblim might be useful, it's meant exactly for our purpose and I think its worth a thought. The only real drawback at this point would be the need for a python CMPI ( it would enable to write python providers for cmpi) and this needs to be written in C/C++ which I cannot do.
cheers Paul BTW: You may find this approach totally oversized and useless but I consider the fragmentation in administering different linux distros one of the biggest roadblocks for linux as it prevents leveraging existing knowledge. Novell will go for WBEM, there is at least interest for debian, haven't checked others. I rather like to avoid writing "Yet Another Yast". Links: [1] http://sblim.sourceforge.net/ http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14625.html http://www.openwbem.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
