Re: open source and directory services

["Richard H. Fifarek" <rfifarek@fifarek.net>]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Casey Boone wrote:

> i, for one, am very excited by this, i see the potential for an end to
> end directory based solution to managing/administrating/etc... linux
> servers AND desktops.

	Ditto.  Frankly, I've always felt this as being one of the major
deal killers for most medium to large environments.  NT Domain/AD/NDS
aren't great, but when you have 50+ machines to deal with, they are better
than nothing.  As the network becomes ubiquitous (buzzword!), the ability
to manage via the network becomes critical.

	Anecdotally, we have a 44 machine cluster, and I use OSCAR
(oscar.openclustergroup.org) to manage the nodes.  It's geared towards
compute clusters, but can be tweaked to do a nice job on a more generic
central management setup.  If we go to Linux on the desktop (as opposed to
Mac or Sunray), I'll probably use OSCAR.

-- 
Richard H. Fifarek
rfifarek@fifarek.net


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