[Fedora-directory-users] Open-source Management Console and Admin server

[Sam Tran]

On 7/6/05, Thierry Lanfranchi <thierry.lanfranchi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>  Sam Tran a écrit : 
>  On 7/5/05, uffe at loop.to <uffe at loop.to> wrote:
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>  Rich Megginson wrote:
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>  Sam Tran wrote:
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>  On 7/5/05, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:
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>  Sam Tran wrote:
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>  Hi,
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> When are you planning to release the management console and admin
> server source code?
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>  Probably before the end of the year. We can't yet provide dates.
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>  Rich,
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> Are you planning to have a Windows version of the management console?
> It would be really convenient for admins who have a Windows box.
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>  I don't know if we will have an "officially supported version" for
> Windows, but you will be able to run it on Windows. You can run it
> right now if you know the java class and arguments - it's just a
> java/swing application. The startconsole binary just sets up the
> environment, classpath, ld library path, etc. then invokes java.
>  
>  Sam,
> with only a little more hassle one can build or download the Win32 bits
> of JSS, NSS and NSPR from mozilla.org and get SSL going too. Those are
> the only native parts of the Console besides the startconsole wrapper.
> That will allow your Console to connect to the Admin Server via https
> and the Directory Server via ldaps. It'll also be less fussy when
> creating ldaps replication agreements.
> 
> Launch the Console in debug mode with "startconsole -D" to see how to
> invoke java to get the Console to run.
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>  
>  Thanks Rich and Uffe for your help.
> 
> It would be nice to have a HOWTO for that.
> 
> Sam
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>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  This is how I proceeded to get the console working under Windows :
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>  * made a c:\fedora directory on my windows box and copied
> /opt/fedora-ds/java and /opt/fedora-ds/lib from red hat box to windows box
>  * started console on the red hat box with the -D command line option like
> Rich recommended, and obtained the full command line
>  * created a .BAT in my c:\fedora\java directory on the windows box
>  
>  edited the .BAT to :
>  * modify the path to the java executable
>  * replace ':' in the -cp option with ';'
>  * replace the / in the pathes with \ (except for the admin server url)
>  
>  I obtained a .BAT with that line (might be split into several lines by my
> mail client, but it's a single command line):
>  java -ms8m -mx64m  -cp
> .;.\nmclf70.jar;.\base.jar;.\ldapjdk.jar;.\mcc70.jar;.\nmclf70_en.jar;.\mcc70_en.jar;.\jss3.jar
> -Djava.library.path=..\lib\jss 
> -Djava.util.prefs.systemRoot=.\.java
> -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=.
> com.netscape.management.client.console.Console -D  -A
> http://myserver:55456
>  
>  (java executable is in my path and the .bat is ran from the c:\fedora\java
> directory)
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>  working great so far
>  
>  Thierry
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>  

Fantastic Thierry!

Merci. ;)

Sam