[Gllug] Installing Linux software (Part II)

[Dean]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:52:55PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Even with Windows 2000/XP, almost any change you care to make on a 
> network (outside of the simplest policy changes) involves a tiresome 
> trudge to each machine.  Set your Linux boxes up properly and you never 
> have to visit them again (unless there's a hardware failure).

Windows 2K (And i think XP) supports something called WMI that allows you
to do a lot of maintenance remotely. It uses the domain to authenticate to
check if it is permitted to make changes and then lets you change a bundle
of the settings on each machine. There are a couple of books on it that
have been released recently but it does look like it'll start making Win2k
admins learn some more good practices about time wasting. :)

It is also available through both COM and WSH so you can use it with all
the usual suspects, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby etc. Its based on the
WBEM (Web based enterprise management) and another similar standard so you
may be able to do chunks of it without locking yourself in.

	Dean
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