What would you like to see in a system administration program?

timothyb89 · 01-17-2007, 08:23 PM

I'm working on a sysadmin program and I'm wondering if anyone has a few ideas of what features someone might want in it.
But the main thing is that it needs (should at least) to be a system command (such as 'halt', 'reboot', etc, etc...). And if you are feeling like being nice you can even give me the command

You can check out the GUI test and give me your opinion at http://javasysadmin.sf.net/ (needs java 6)

tuxdev · 01-17-2007, 09:05 PM

*Shudders at the prospect of a Java sysadmin tool*

Anyway, a good all-around jack-of-all-trades sysadmin tool should be able to configure wireless, and start/stop services. I've been slightly involved in a similar tool focusing only on showing information. Look at the project here for some ideas.

timothyb89 · 01-17-2007, 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuxdev

*Shudders at the prospect of a Java sysadmin tool*

Anyway, a good all-around jack-of-all-trades sysadmin tool should be able to configure wireless, and start/stop services. I've been slightly involved in a similar tool focusing only on showing information. Look at the project here for some ideas.

what's wrong with a Java-based system admin tool? :P
I handle most of the code with:

Code:

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("system_command_here");

and that works pretty well. It's more of a frontend to system administration for new users... but of course it will have some more advanced features.

dgiik · 01-18-2007, 01:36 AM

**Find_Kernel**
At times I can have 14 kernels among my 8 partitions and 4 Operating systems on my computer, and I'm always recompiling my kernels or swapping linux distros. Sometimes I loose track of where my kernels are and which belong to which partition or distro.

Find_Kernel should search every device attached to the system for kernels. It should then find every operating system installed on the system. It should then return the location of each kernel and the name of the operating system that it belongs to, or can be used in. It should then ask the admin if he wants to install any of the kernels into any of the operating systems (OSs) on the system, and be able to do so automatically.
The really good thing about this is, I would be able to make a kernel and put it on a cdrom. Then whenever I installed a new distro, I can just flip the cd into my cdrom, run find_kernel and then install the that kernel into any of my OSs on any partition.