On 02/01/17 12:51, jdow wrote: > > Systemd has a steep and long learning curve, it appears. So a good GUI > manager for it might be helpful, especially if it had some graphical > features as well as text representations. The old init stuff was easier > for somebody not making a career of the whole thing. If I was paid to > sysadmin I'd dig in more than I can now. Other things are more fun for > somebody not quite retired.
I believe the Cockpit project [1] is a step in that direction. There are even some packages available in the EL7 repos already. It depends on systemd and D-Bus to function, and can be extended to manage anything which uses the the D-Bus. Plus you can manage multiple servers via the same interface. [1] <http://cockpit-project.org/> A few presentations on Cockpit can be found on youtube as well, like these ones: Cockpit: What's New and What's Next (Feb 2016) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdm4rsnVobw> Cockpit: Modern Server User Interface (Feb 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97l1qf2sZtk Towards the end of Januar, another devconf.cz [2] conference is happening, and there might be yet another presentation on Cockpit, in addition to probably also some systemd related ones. [2] <https://devconf.cz/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth