[WBEL-users] Enterprise Managment Suggestions

[Dan Geist]

Tony, That sounds like a perfectly good topic! I wish more people would
talk about management tools in the open-source community, but that's not
to say there's not lots of stuff out there.

The question arises... what exactly are your goals? Also, what types of
machines are you managing?

I worked at a place that had a RH Linux developer core with windows
bus-dev folks. A few cleverly-crafted small scripts were all that was
needed to maintain the developers hosts (nightly updates, etc).

I have some WBEL hosts currently that utilize central authentication
sources using PAM_TACPLUS (so they can share user resources with routers
and switches, etc..).

So... what are you trying to do, exactly?

Dan


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:41, Tony wrote:
> Sorry if this is a tad OT, but does anyone have suggestions for 'enterprise
> management' tools?
> 
> Having to manage a whole department of machines separately is a drag. What
> is needed is
> something like Microsoft's' GPO/Active Directory..
> 
> Short of writing a whole bunch of scripts ( and perhaps a GUI for our
> 'admins' ) on my own,
> what all have you people dealt with that can do the same sort of job? And
> preferably GPL or
> BSD licensed..
> 

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