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From: Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Looking for software for daily operations work
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Date: 1 Jun 91 19:24:59 GMT
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Does anyone know of any software (free or *very* low cost) that makes daily
operations of a lab of workstations easy?  What I'm looking for are solutions
to problems such as process 123 on machine ABC needs to be killed and a
student employee should be able to do this without root access and preferably
from any workstation on net simply by saying something like "kill 123 on ABC"
- ideal goal is a screen/menu interface.  Kill isn't the only thing I need the
students to be able to do, other things are shutdown, delete print jobs, file
backup and restore, etc.  Students are *not* unix-knowledgeable so *simple* is
important.

I need something like this and before I get too deep into trying to develop
something, I was hoping others would have done something like this - this
can't really be a very unique requirement.  Even if what you're using isn't
very sophisticated, it might be better than what I have rigged up now out of
desperation and it might give me ideas if I have to do something myself.

The computers are Sun 3's running SunOS 4.1.1.  Also, if anybody has any
knowledge of anything that can run across a net to support VAXes running VMS,
I would be very interested in that too.

Thanks.

Marlys A. Nelson			System Manager, Network Manager,
Academic Computing			Programmer, etc., etc.
Univ of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, WI 54022
Internet: Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu