Re: Database directed system administration ??

krienke@infko.uni-koblenz.de litauer@infko.uni-koblenz.de writes: }We are looking for a database based system for (unix-) workstation }administration. }Using this databasesystem we want eg. to be able to add new users to our }system, or new workstations to our net. }The modification of the data contained in the database schould then trigger }the appropriate actions. }Does anyone know about such a system, or has anyone experience with such a }database ? "Moira" from MIT's Project Athena (if you are into free software needing lots of work) "Moira" from DEC's DECathena product (if you are into spending lots of dollars) We use a *much* modified (maybe 10% original remains) MIT moira, it does wonders for us. But... well, the polite way to say this is -- MIT's ideas are a lot better than their code -- it does take some babysitting. We have the DECathena here as part of a deal to move some of our features into the product, but I am not working on that part. (Sorry, because of our deal with DEC we can not give out our additions to moira.) John -- John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.'' Systems Software Engineer Project Vincent Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551