Re: [PLUG] Xen and the art of server maintenance

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

OR if you're still stuck on debian, debian and webmin/usermin would be a good start i suppose. i believe there's also XEN-specific web interfaces and guis, etc.

if you plan on going webmin, just remember that it's not in the repositories ( 
http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/webmin.html ) due to lack of developers for it. you can get a .deb at the project's site ( http://www.webmin.com/
 )

On 10/19/07, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:

Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> On Friday 19 October 2007, Eric wrote:
>> Based on the list of tasks/services that you list and your description of
>> the use as "small business" I'd recommend SME Server (except for Asterisk).
>>  It's a simple Linux distro that is designed to be set up and configured
>> quickly and easily and maintenance is simple.  It's based on CentOS - a
>> free version of Red Hat Enterprise Server and it uses a web interface for
>> configuration.  Is this server to also handle Internet access, firewall and
>> DHCP server?  That's built in and it's all easy to get running.
>
> I was toying with the idea of using SME Server (or a similar distro), but I
> haven't had much luck with RedHat-based distros.  Is there a Debianish way to
> achieve a similar result (comprehensive web-panel, "user-friendly"
> maintenance)?

I forgot that you are quite Debian focused :-)

For ordinary use ( the list of items that you had in your original email ) there
is no need to use rpm, yum, or any other package manager.  There is a web-based
configuration tool (server-manager) available and it covers all of the typical
setup.  There is a console based setup that you complete on first boot and after
that you just use their server-manager web interface.

Also, it's an easy download and install... try it!

Eric
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