Re: open source and directory services

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

went to the website but the network here is sucking it down again. 
tried to read the faq page.  could you give me a rundown on what all
it does/allows you to do?

Casey


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:28:50 -0600 (MDT), Richard H. Fifarek
<rfifarek@fifarek.net> wrote:
> 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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