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[Rubén Romero y Cordero <huayra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

True,

There is a whole stack of tools out there for this kind of thing
(boils down to Service Operation, transition and design. Smart IT
through automatization).

The most impressive, easy and complete small business server that
include administration features I have seen that is ubuntu based (used
debian before that and it is packaged already) is ebox.

http://www.ebox-platform.com

There was a big push on Ebox a while ago in Ubuntu Server (I even
think Mark S. mentioned it in an interview.) Bad packaging of the app
in universe killed unfortunately the solutions momentum. There is an
up-to-date PPA that can be used and it's supported by the Ebox people
(It's either the Spanish company Warp of "Vodafone 3G connector for
Linuux" fame that's behind it or used to be. The company was split up
to adapt their business units better).

I hope people see the adventages Ebox brings and hopefully it is
adapted better to our server releases (at least the LTS ones as
enterprises and organizations should not be running anything else).

Even OpenVPN can be managed from there and they have a beta package
for desktop management... :-)

R.

2009/10/24, Mark A. Hershberger <mhershberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> David Tremblay <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> What misses in the ubuntu world (apart from the fact that landscape is
>> truly great tool) is being able to manage desktops themselves
>> (software configuration, package management etc etc) if it's a mashup
>> of tool, say openldap one side and scripts the other than it would
>> great.
>>
>> At least an overview of the tool one should use to manage ubuntu
>> desktops
>
> This is what tools like CFEngine (open source), puppet (open source) and
> others do.  You can also look at tools like FAI (Debian's Fully
> Automated Install).  Another option is to use WebMin.  Webmin will let
> you control, update and manage users and software across a cluster of
> computers.
>
> If you want a “mash-up”, these tools would be the place to start.  The
> Debian project itself relies extensively (at least in the past) on LDAP
> to help with configuration.
>
> What sort of overview did you want beyond what is already on the site
> of these tools?
>
> --
> Mark A. Hershberger
> Open Source Developer
> IntraHealth International, Inc.
> mhershberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 919.229.9637
>
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