Radmind

I am no longer at the University of Chicago (I'm now at the Univ of
Michigan) and the webmin project is not active, and has not been for a
while. It looks like the uchicago site is still up, that work is
fairly old, but may still work with current versions of Radmind.

-kris

On 2/21/06, Jim Kirkum <jimkirk@...> wrote:
> Kris Steinhoff from U. of Chicago was working on this awhile back,
> but I haven't heard anything new on it in a couple of years, so I am
> not sure if the project is still active or not.  You can check out
> his site at:
>
> https://hollow.uchicago.edu/radmind/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
> >I need to make portions of our Radmind configuration available to
> >our Technical Staff - but do not want them to deal with the GUI or
> >remotely controlling one of the servers.
> >Mainly they need to apply configurations to workstations (or assign load=
sets).
> >
> >I'd like to use a web interface for this purpose and assume I'm not
> >the first to want such an item. I can't find information in the
> >archives regarding such a project.
> >Has anyone put a web front end on RadMind in any capacity?
> >
> >--
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Jeramey Valley
> >ValleyJR@...
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> >H. H. Dow High School
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>The site is still in development but it is successfully managing over
>350 machines with 5 primary configurations, and many individual
>customizations. It managed the building of our radmind infrastructure
>from scratch. If anybody is interested I can provide some screen
>shots to clarify the above. Once a few of the remaining bugs have
>been sorted out and the code cleaned up I would like to open source
>my work for the community but that will require the approval of the
>university.
>
>Cheers,
>Adam

Add me to the list of interested folks, I was going to do this in FileMaker, to have a database engine for searching & sorting, and adding the inheritance and eventually to use FileMaker's web interface.  Sounds like I would be reinventing the wheel now.

I could also make a french localization to your work if you would be interested

Manuel

manuel.deschambault@...

senior mac tech, St-Hyacinthe Schoolboard

has anyone run a single radmind server listening on two ports? I'm about 
to try this out because I need to separate out the Intel Macs from the 
PPC ones and have not implemented certs nor can I use DNS . I thought 
perhaps having two instances of the server running listening on 
different ports would solve that problem. I can clearly put up two 
instances of the server manager.app but that doesn't spawn a second 
server thread.

Thanks ahead of time.

-- 
Christopher D. Cover
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1600 Valley Road
Wayne NJ, 07601
973-720-3664
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Quick Links:
The William Paterson University Macintosh Page:
http://ww2.wpunj.edu/itservices/macintosh/default.html

Macintosh FAQ:
http://ww2.wpunj.edu/itservices/macintosh/FAQ.pdf

General System Info:
http://ww2.wpunj.edu/itservices/macintosh/general_info.pdf

coverc wrote:
> has anyone run a single radmind server listening on two ports? I'm about 
> to try this out because I need to separate out the Intel Macs from the 
> PPC ones and have not implemented certs nor can I use DNS . I thought 
> perhaps having two instances of the server running listening on 
> different ports would solve that problem. I can clearly put up two 
> instances of the server manager.app but that doesn't spawn a second 
> server thread.

I'm currently doing this quite happily. I'm in the process of migrating to certificates and a new naming scheme for loadsets/.Ks and am running two radmind processes, one listening on the default port and one listening on 66620. I just edited the StartupItem so that it looks thus: 
---------
ConsoleMessage "Starting Radmind Server"
    /usr/local/sbin/radmind -D /var/radmind2 -w2 -x /var/radmind2/cert/ca.pem -y /var/radmind2/cert/cert.pem -z /var/radmind2/cert/cert.pem -u 022 -p66620
    /usr/local/sbin/radmind -F local3 -L info 
---------

I'm running my second one from a different base dir, but obviously you don't have to.

Cheers,

-geoff

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On 4/27/07 10:50 AM, "coverc" <coverc@...> wrote:

> has anyone run a single radmind server listening on two ports? I'm about
> to try this out because I need to separate out the Intel Macs from the
> PPC ones and have not implemented certs nor can I use DNS . I thought
> perhaps having two instances of the server running listening on
> different ports would solve that problem. I can clearly put up two
> instances of the server manager.app but that doesn't spawn a second
> server thread.
> 
> Thanks ahead of time.

I've been running a Radmind server on at least three ports (one for each
"-w" authorization level) for several years now, and this probably would
have appeared in the list archives.

I edited the "RadmindServer" script in the Mac OS X StartupItem based on
comments by Sam Agnew to the list, since the server(s) were not properly
starting up after system reboot (on Tiger). See the text below.

I also call a secondary script that runs the multiple instances, just to
make fewer changes to the StartupItem. This secondary script runs a small
function that starts up each server instance with the right properties,
including authorization level and port.

I'm not sure why you are thinking of separating out Intel and PowerPC Macs
by port. The only reasons I would really consider starting multiple
instances would be to support different startup parameters, as does so can
make your client-side scripts a bit more complex.

The StartupItem:

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> . /etc/rc.common
> 
> ##
> # Start up radmind server
> ##
> 
> # Reformat for Tiger by Sam Agnew
> # 2005-07-31
> 
> StartService ()
> {
> 
>         if [ -f /var/radmind/config ]; then
>                 CheckForNetwork
> 
>                 if [ "${NETWORKUP}" = "-NO-" ]; then
>                         exit;
>                 fi
> 
>                 ConsoleMessage "Starting Radmind Server"
> 
>                 # /usr/local/sbin/radmind -u 077
>                 
>                 # Modified to run multiple Radmind instances
>                 # by calling a subscript which does that work
>                 # for minimal changes to the StartupItem script
>                 /Library/StartupItems/RadmindServer/MultipleInstances
>                 ConsoleMessage "Radmind Server Started"
> 
>         fi
> }
> 
> StopService ()
> {
>         ConsoleMessage "Stopping Radmind Server"
>         killall radmind
>         ConsoleMessage "Radmind Server Stopped"
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> RestartService ()
> {
>         ConsoleMessage "Restarting Radmind Server"
>         StopService;
>         StartService;
> }
> 
> RunService "$1"

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Jeremy Reichman
Senior Desktop Systems Engineer
Information and Technology Services
Rochester Institute of Technology