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Re: [LUG] centralised management tools



On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:57:26PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> "Supporting Linux is still very difficult," ... said ... " because most 
> centralized management tools do not work with Linux."
> I seem to hear about Tivoli, I know that one can run ssh and carry out 
> commands in many other computers, and automate that.

Companies probably lack basic knowledge like

for i in LAN:
    ssh i update-script

Tivoli is for big companies for IBM to exploit.

> What centrali{s|z}ed management tools are there for Linux installations, 
> and what for Windows is a challenging mark to hit?

It is different isn't it? :)

Very briefly I would say NFS server and BOOTP for clients.

Skolelinux which I have seen in Norway has the right approach. 

They have the: server <-> workstation <-> thin client type model
Actually see:
http://developer.skolelinux.no/arkitektur/arkitektur.html.en

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