Re: The tools through which a bunch of servers can be easily set up and maintained - wanted.
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Harry Rickards wrote:
>> Can You please tell me if there are the tools through which a bunch of
>> servers - meaning: postfix, vsftpd, squid, apache/nginx, may,
>> iptables, etc
>> - can be easily set up and then easily maintained (may through a web
>> interface)?
>>
>> For now I do this manually, configuring its config. files, but as the
>> work volume increases it becomes necessary to make some kind of
>> automation.
>>
>> It is interesting how professional companies do it.
>>
>> Thank You for Your time.
>>
>>
>>
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> You could try webmin or ebox.
I am in no way a professional, but Webmin saved my life when I was a
newbie.
I'd never heard of eBox, so I surfed the site a little. I find this very
hard to believe, but it looks like using eBox means you have to use
their Ubuntu distro on every one of your servers! And if apache breaks,
you're up the creek.
Webmin must be running on every machine to be administered, but it's not
very picky about the underlying os. It runs its own little HTML server
on port 10000 (by default, but changeable), and the whole thing is
simply a bunch of perl CGIs that make HTML pictures, collect form data,
and modify config files. I've run into some modules that don't work very
well, but nothing so far that kills anything.
OTOH, Webmin doesn't do automation -- there has to be a human clicking
buttons and typing, and it talks to one server at a time. If you've got
a hundred servers to admin, roll-your-own shell scripts that ssh in, run
sed on the config scripts, and reload the servers would certainly be
faster...
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Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com
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