Small Business distribution

[Darryl Moore]

Thanks Pedro, that looks very promising. I was also pointed to
http://www.contribs.org by someone else who made a private reply. Both
look great, unfortunately both also are targeted at windows
environments. I need something that is for a native Linux network.

I'm going to look into seeing if ebox can be patched to make it work
better on a native Linux network, it looks to be a little closer to my
ultimate goal.

cheers,
darryl


Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> Darryl Moore wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Last week I posted draft network spec which I suppose was too detailed
>> in many ways and not detailed enough in others as I didn't get any replies.
>>
>> Attached is a point form list for a basic small business network I'd
>> like to provide. The basic setup includes a minimum of 2 servers (for
>> service redundancy) and any number of workstations
>>
>> I'd like to work with anyone on completing this. If we can come up with
>> a basic standardized set up then it would be helpful for all of us as we
>> could say that it is supported by other vendors too.
>>
>> Here is what I'd like to do, and perhaps I should set up a wiki to do
>> it, if anyone else wants to help.
>>
>> 1) decide if this assortment of applications and servers are the most
>> ideal for most small businesses, make any changes to the list now.
>> 2) develop scripts to install all these application on a clean Ubuntu
>> installation.
>> 3) develop scripts to customize them after deployment.
>> 4) decide what additional scripts are needed for puppet and nagios and
>> write them
>> 5) decide what additional utilities businesses might need to do basic
>> administration. An easy way to add/remove LDAP user & groups and manage
>> group directories comes to mind.
>>
>> I'm not a Linux Professional (YET) but I seriously think there is some
>> potential here, and am working hard to both get my Linux certifications
>> and build this system. A week ago it sounded like there was a lot of
>> interest in this. I am hoping there still is.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Darryl Moore
>>
>>     
>
> Have you looked into e-box (http://ebox-platform.com/)? It is 
> Ubuntu-based and comes with a web interface for admin functions that 
> facilitate installing/uninstalling software.
>
> You can extend e-box to cover any software that you want via a plugin 
> architecture. In this way, rather than spending time in developing your 
> own scripts to manage software you could contribute plugins to the e-box 
> project.
>
> On the other hand, my approach to SME's would have different components, 
> each likely being a self-contained solution, with integration services 
> becoming an added value for my services company:
>
> o Network component (firewall, NAT, VPN, DNS, DHCP, etc.),
> o VoIP component (asterisk, freeswitch, etc.),
> o Application server component (mail, collaboration, LDAP, CRM, etc.),
> o Client component (OO, mail client, etc.).
>
> Cheers,
>
>   

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