[issue51] More friendly gui ?

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 9:43 pm, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 5:19 pm, Michael Mansour wrote:
> > > Hi Jon,
> > >
> > > > jon <linux.learner at gmail.com> added the comment:
> > > >
> > > > web based is an option. but that might require a daemon (not sure on
> > > > that). it would certainly require smart to listen on a particular
> > > > port from local host
> > > > (mush the same way X listens to port 6000).
> > >
> > > One of the main things I like about yum, is an add-on called pakiti
> > > (used to be called yumit). Nightly checks are run in the normal way,
> > > but are logged to a MySQL database which can be viewed via a webpage,
> > > so you can see which systems (almost any linux based systems) which
> > > need updating from a webpage.
> >
> > There are many yum guis.  FC5 comes with yumex, which is pretty good.
>
> Yes I know, but I'm not coming from the angle of a desktop user.
>
> None of the yum gui's give you a web page view of your entire environment,
> pakiti is the only one that does. When you're running a large number of
> servers (anywhere from 5 - 1000's), local gui's are of no help and a
> wholistic view of the environment one of the only things that matters.
>
> That's basically where I'm coming from.

Perhaps check webmin.  I see it has "Cluster Software Packages" that might be 
helpful.