Ubuntu Server graphical interface?

[Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva]

Agreed with you. But... isn't that Canonical Landscape?

Cheers, Leandro.

Em Sáb, 2008-05-03 às 15:31 -0700, Martin Hess escreveu:
> I find people who think in terms of a few servers will at times find a
> desktop GUI compelling, but once you move to hundreds or thousands of
> servers the idea of connecting into a desktop GUI on each machine to
> administer is beyond ridiculous.
> 
> 
> I think GUIs are fine but only if they can be used control whole
> swaths of machines at once i.e. :
> 
> 
> * upgrade some package on some set of machines
> 
> * revert to prior package on some set of machines
> 
> * compare machines for installed package differences
> 
> * change netfilter policies on some set of machines to refuse or allow
> a certain type of traffic
> 
> * start/stop service on some set of machines
> 
> * change config file on some set of machines
> 
> * ect...
> 
> 
> The list of course is pretty much endless but you get the idea. When
> you have many machines it is pretty much out of the question to
> connect to each one and administer it individually by hand, either buy
> GUI or shell.
> 
> 
> I think any server GUI that is consider should be scalable. It should
> be able to move beyond the needs of one or 2 servers and be able to
> handle many servers. 
> 
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> 
> I propose creating requirements for a server GUI and then see if we
> can find anything that meets it. So far I think I've seen the
> following:
> 
> 
> 1) Optional - must not be required for Ubuntu Server
> 2) Secure - must not have known security issues, must have good known
> security architecture
> 3) Scalable - must be able to administer sets of machines (I know
> there is not necessarily any consensus on this one and people might
> reject it as a requirement)
> 4) ?
> 
> 
> Shameless plug for #3:
> 
> 
> * gets xwindows off the servers which is a know security risk and
> resource hog
> * potentially can require nothing more than sshd and preshared keys on
> all the servers
> 
> 
>  
> On May 3, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva wrote:
> 
> > I'm talking about virt-install, which will open a VNC connection to
> > the machine and only allow connections from localhost.
> > 
> > Cheers, Leandro.
> > 
> > 2008/5/3 Ante Karamatic <ivoks at grad.hr>:
> >         On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:15:07 -0300
> >         "Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva"
> >         <leandro at limaesilva.com.br> wrote:
> >         
> >         > I think that is necessary for creating virtual machines
> >         following
> >         > Ubuntu Server guide, isn't it?
> >         
> >         
> >         If you are talking about virt-manager, then no. virt-manager
> >         is a tool
> >         you'll use on you workstation and manage virtual machines on
> >         a pool of
> >         ubuntu servers.
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