This has been a big complaint for me over the years. We've had nice tools to build NIS and NIS+ servers for managing accounts. But no tools to create everything from scratch in LDAP. The documentation has been extremely poor over the years and incomplete. Ultimately, it forces this simple task into the hands of those who specialize in LDAP and out of the hands of SA's. Which I think is the wrong direction. Things should be simple in the LDAP and kerberos space to help folks dump NIS and NIS+.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Jason King <ja...@ansipunx.net> To: Ben Rockwood <b...@cuddletech.com> Cc: Octave Orgeron <unixcons...@yahoo.com>; sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org; perf-disc...@opensolaris.org Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 3:12:10 PM Subject: Re: [perf-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Ben Rockwood <b...@cuddletech.com> wrote: > Octave Orgeron wrote: >> What I meant what the such things have been left to 3rd party tools and >> products by Sun. That should change. Monitoring and administrative tools are >> essential and should be robust out of the box. >> > > I know what you meant, I was trying to be funny. > > I think we're of the same mind that a variety of Solaris features are > lacking polish out of the box. I'd go further to say that Sun has done > a poor job of providing that polish via add on products, and it seems > like the only way it ever gets high level features at all is through > acquisitions, which seem to whither and die after the fact.... > Management Center is a good example. > > I would personally like to see us/Sun put polish on: > > * LDAP & Kerberos (We need an easy to use, easy to manage, easy to > deploy AD alternative) > * NFS Security (consequence of better Kerberos) > * SNMP (what we're discussing here) > * FMA (still not robust enough) > * SMF > * ZFS Monitoring Hooks > * Extended Accounting tools > * BSM Auditing work that stalled (namely, an audit server to avoid using > local NFS mounted audit trails) > * ... > > > Too many users are creating custom tools and not opening them. Just > adding GNOME panels or focusing on GUI's isn't really useful, we need > easy to use CLI tools that make users successful very quickly and easily. > > benr. > _______________________________________________ > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-disc...@opensolaris.org > I have some ideas on the LDAP/Kerberos piece, though I want to get other stuff out of the way before I start going down that road again (short version: _very_ minor modification to client libraries + added modules with OpenDS + install script with sensible defaults). I was also wanting to see where all the sparks and related projects go before investing too much effort. Now that I'm in a different job that isn't so time-monopolizing, I've been able to start working making faster progress on things. _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
