>We are a hosting firm that is growing. Up to now we have been manually
>creating NT users,
self-signup and accnt creation is common topic on the isp-xxx lists. It
seems there is no monster app to do it, most seem to roll their own or
combine various pgms and glue into something they live with.
>creating DNS entries,
this is pretty much manual. I assume you're using BIND 8.2.2? Add an entry
to named.conf, and create the db.<domainname>.com file. I bet I could be
done out of a database using ColdFusion (or ASP) with a script writing out
the text files, but I haven't come across anybody who's done it.
>adding the web/ftp site to IIS 4,
manual, although there are some scriptable approaches, I just saw last week.
>setting up Web Trends, and of course creating Imail domains and users.
manual, but scriptable
>Imail seems to be the easiest to automate. How are other NT admins
>streamlining these other processes? What NT tools are you using?
I suggest you joing the isp-nt and isp-whatever lists. btw, these same
topics come up in the FreeBSD and Linux lists.
isp-lists.com
A worthy objective is to have everything running out of ODBC/SQL database,
using apps and tool happy with standards base protocols like LDAP and radius.
Len
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