Same "problem here" but I'm working on something with beta version of Cold
fusion 4.5 server on linux and DB2 developper database.
Actually with that system (althought it's in very beta state) i can do the
following things automatically :
- Create dns entries on both primary and secondary servers.
- Add an ip to the linux box for the site
- Generate the apache config for the site / reload apache
- Create a ftp login for the customer with a random generated password
- Create and schedule the daily and monthly scripts for our http stats
generator for the site.
- Create a sample index.html with a welcome message (Welcome to
www.domain.tld) that is copied in the site directory.
- Create a printable html page of the customer site account information that
can be directly sent to the customer
and i'm finally working at the moment with perl on nt to generate the mail
accounts with existing Imail commandline tools.
It's not yet ready but it'll work.
If that can give you some hope :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT - Automating adding users and domains onNT
>
> >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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