Distributed administration
Distributed administration
allows you to manage entities (for example, users and printers)
that may be associated with several systems in a network
rather than being attached to one system.
It is particularly important for enterprise installations where
large numbers of systems must be maintained in a consistent state.
Examples of distributed administration include:
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Managing the accounts of users and groups who may log into many
systems on the network -- using NIS Network
Information Service.
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Creating distributed home accounts so users have the
same work environment regardless of the system they may log into
-- using NIS and automount.
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Sending messages to all machines on the network -- using
rwall(1Mtcp).
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Collecting system performance information from all machines on
the network and generating failure alerts -- using SNMP
(Simple Network Management Protocol) and system monitoring technologies.
Both remote and distributed administration can be done with
SCOadmin managers, which are graphical administration
interfaces supplied with UnixWare 7.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004