El sáb, 22-03-2008 a las 18:05 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Aaron Huslage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just want to make a quick point. One main reason that many web-based admin > > interfaces don't work is because the problem is extremely difficult. > > I agree with you. Nothing beats the cli, text based config files and > log wranging. We won't even try to go where webmin/e-box/vhcs have > gone. However, what they do have of valuable is the libraries and > backends. >
as well you wrote, nothing beats the cli and text based config, so i think that the admin interface for school servers could be just an complement of the whole server config, and may be a fast way to make the daily config. > Some of the scenarios I want to cater for are: > > - I want to install optional feature X ( - a high level > package/service manager that shows only certain metapackages and > starts/stops services) > - Can't see the internet/wan or can't see a specific XO - network > status overview and diagnostics > - Stuck with a problem, need to send some logs to the OLPC team (via > network or USB key) > - New HD is plugged in, and the OS might choose one of a few things > to do with it (more storage, mirror the data for backup purposes, etc) > > considering these tasks are to be performed by a user with a > reasonable skill in using the XO UI. So designing the UI will be a lot > of fun, but from the overall project POV, perhaps 10% of it. 50% will > be making them _really_ belts-and-suspenders failsafe. Once we are out > in the field, everything that can go wrong will go wrong somewhere, > for someone. > > We might get a power brownout/blackout while we edit a config file, > the drive we are writing to will be yanked out or crash, and everytime > we have to recover gracefully. > > That is why the backend is 80 to 90% of the job, and the first step is > to research the backends out there. > > cheers, > > > > m -- Carlos Ríos V. Estudiante de Ing. de Ejec. en Comp. e Inf. Universidad del Bío-Bío _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
