> I can tell you that enterprise-level management > functionality is in > development for the sort of mass deployment you're > talking in the pkg(5) > project, the Automated Installer project, and others.
If it's in development, that's great, although without knowing any details about it, it's hard to say whether it is what is needed, or something else. So what is it? I'll be quite open and honest in stating that "but it works on a single system, for a single user!" is the approach Sun took for years when implementing new technologies. For example, zones are one such perfect example, especially if we consider, that there can be up to 8192 zones per system. The tools provided were focused on a lone developer's system, not on server farms with tens of thousands of systems in lights out management environment. Which is precisely why it was a nightmare and lots of political games, to push such a solution through in an enterprise environment. And it should not be that way. My stance on this is: if it is developed to work for an ulimited number of systems (like JumpStart(TM) + Flash(TM)), then it will work with ease on a single user's system because it was designed to SCALE. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
