AFS for Software Distribution in an Heterogeneous Environment

[Padiyath Sreekumar ACO Phone: 3643]

 Hi ,
   In our Institute (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) we are having
a heterogeneous environment with computers consisting of Sun, Dec Unix,
IBM, VMS and a number of PC's, Mac's and starting with NT machines. I have
the following questions:

1. Whether any AFS installations is using AFS for SW distribution?
2. Is it advisable to use AFS for SW distribution in our environment?
3. How do you distribute the SW in your environment?
4. Can you suggest some SW, if not AFS, for SW distribution?
5. For what purpose AFS is used in your site?

   I will appreciate if you can give some answer to my above questions. We are
looking for some SW with which can distribute the SW among our users. This is
part of my project which Iam evaluating in PSI. 

    Iam also looking for a SW for configuration management of our systems.
Is there any SW available for this purpose? I would like to have a SW
which automatically reads the HW information(configuration info) and enters 
in a databank. If you can give some information regarding to this subject
Iam very much thankful.

  Thanks very much in advance for taking sometime to answer my questions.

  regards,
  Kumar

PADIYATH Sreekumar      |  System Manager   |  Paul Scherrer Institute
CH - 5232 Villigen PSI  |  Switzerland      |  Tel   : +41 56 310 36 43
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