[olug] System management tools

[Don Kauffman]

Are you aware of webmin? It's a admin tool that can be installed on most
*nix systems and can be accessed securely through a web browser. I am
not a system admin so can't speak about it's robustness but I use it at
home. It does the job and more. It will work on all the *nix platforms
that you mentioned. 

Check it out at and let us know what you think:

http://www.webmin.com/

Don Kauffman

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 18:06, Sean Kelly wrote:
> I am currently looking for tools and solutions for maintaining system
> configurations on many machines in a networked environment where each
> machine may run one of several OSes, have several different purposes, etc.
> 
> For example, some machines are running Linux (RHEL AS 3), some are running
> HP-UX 11/11i, and some are running FreeBSD. Some machines are running
> Oracle, some are running Apache, some are running ISC BIND, and others are
> running Sendmail.
> 
> I've looked at a few solutions, such as cfengine (http://www.cfengine.org),
> the solution used by FedEx, and various other things. None of them seem to
> hit the nail on the head, so to speak.
> 
> I was curious what others are using out there, if anything. We're talking
> at least a few dozen machines spread across a few subnets, OSes, services,
> etc...