Re: [cobalt-users] Have SUN stopped supporting XTR?

[Ryan Verner <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ack.. sorry for the second email, didn't answer everything in my first ;)

| from the command line, most customers that I know are not. If we could in any
| way maintain the interface it would be a bonus. I realize that we could install
| sphera or ensim or even webmin, but these are Cobalts, and we're all already
| familiar -- for better or worse -- with the Cobalts.

I personally don't like the interface, and think it could be done a lot better.  w3c compliancy so it works in all browsers, better file handling for config files, etc...  I've certainly seen the interface make a complete mess of files on my XTR.

~12 months ago I used to sell a linux distrib aimed at companies wanting a firewall/basic server - it was based on debian, and I had a bunch of packages which provided the web interface/config tools.  The really handy thing is the actual packages theirselves (apache, bind, squid, etc) would still come from a debian mirror, so everything was always up to date ("update" option on the web interface).  All my packages provided were the web interface, template config files, etc.

Perhaps an idea like this could be used.

| There's no way I want to pull drives out every time I want to reinstall. For
| some of us that won't even be an option. Think about it like this... telling
| someone in a NOC 3000 miles away to connect a crossover cable is easy, having
| them pull the drive (making sure that they've pulled the right one) and then
| mailing it to you, is not so easy... Eventually if we wanted others to benefit
| from our work distributing ISOs of an alternative "OS Restore CD" would be nice.

Yah.. well there's two ways we can approach the problem.  One is providing some kind of "installer" you throw over an existing Cobalt - and it chucks out Sun RPM's, throws in ones we create, with perhaps a new web interface, yet (tries) to keep all the old settings.

We can also take the debian approach of completely starting from scratch... although I know for me, this is not going to be too easy (server is in the US, I'm in Australia).  Removing the hard drives is going to prove, at the least, interesting ;-)

All stuff we can discuss once the mailing list is up, for sure.

R

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