Are you sure you can edit config files by hand without breaking anything? On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 15:52 -0400, Greg Wallace wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to add one more option to the list - www.netdirector.org > > release 3.2 which went on SourceForge last week moves the project to > GPL, fixes some bugs, adds some features and, importantly for folks > here, offers a deb package for easily installing NetDirector's server > manager. Here's the release notes for 3.2. > > quick note on what's different between NetDirector and ucsa, webmin, > ebox > > NetDirector is explicitly designed for centrally managing medium to > large (5-10 and up) server environments in a many-as-one fashion. > This means that an Administrator using NetDirector can use a GUI to > make changes to multiple servers at the same time. NetDirector also > has other "enterprise" features such as role-based access control, > automated revision control, change rollback, change scheduling using > built in calendar... > > So, you may be thinking - why would I use NetDIrector instead of > puppet? The answer is that, with NetDirector, you CAN use a GUI to > administer packages if you want, but you don't have to - with > NetDirector, you can also edit config files manually, and still > benefit from change scheduling, rollback, etc..In addition, one of the > most frequently asked for features in NetDirector is the ability to > run one's own scripts through it, which would take roughly 1 man month > to do. And, since NetDirector is a client/server system (1 Server > Manager, 1xN Server Agents, where N is the number of nodes you want to > manage), and since Server Agents are written in Python, NetDirector > can be easily extended to manage non-posix systems, like Windows. > > I created this blueprint about NetDirector during last year's UDS in > Boston. > > Thoughts from this group? > > Best, > > -- > Greg > > Greg Wallace > SkypeID: gregwallaceemu > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Nicolas Valcarcel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 08:52 -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > > I continue to hope that we get a conversation together > between folks > > like Nicolas, the eBox folks, Dan Shearer, the Augeas folks, > etc. to > > explore visions and ways to cooperate or combine efforts. > > I'm in close contact with the augeas people, since at this > state my work > is being focused on augeas and it will be that way until i > have a good > number of lenses. Also mathiaz started a conversation on the > eBox-devel > list [0] (where i participate) and they are going to try > augeas, but the > migration is somehow hard and it lack on support on the > services we > need. > > So the state now is: > * eBox will give augeas a try when they are more lenses and a > perl-binding > * i will write a document on how to write lenses (because the > one in > the official page isn't complete) and then start writing them > with the > augeas team. > > 0. > https://lists.warp.es/pipermail/ebox-devel/2008-June/000376.html > > > -- > aka nxvl > Peruvian LoCo Team > Key fingerprint = BCE4 27A0 D03E 55DE DA2D BE06 891D 8DEE > 6545 97FE > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 654597FE > > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- aka nxvl Key fingerprint = BCE4 27A0 D03E 55DE DA2D BE06 891D 8DEE 6545 97FE gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 654597FE
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