'Johnny Appleseed' with FC2

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 07:26, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>     I'm about a week away from starting a Linux conversion company where
> I help users tired of Windows come to Fedora. (It's too early to use FC3
> on there yet, I think. :)
> 
>     Questions:
> 
>     1. RH9->FC1 was a big step; I'm not surprised it was better to
> install than to upgrade.  For those that have tried it, does it look
> like that's changed with FC3-test?  (I'm thinking it's not such a big
> change, but I don't know.)
> 

I did not think RH9 to FC1 was such a big deal.  It was the jump to FC2
with a new kernel, xorg, and couple of other things that generated some
major gaps.

Have not tried any of the FC3 stuff yet but I expect it to be much
easier to jump to. 

>     2. I like using email certs.  It just seems like the right way to do
> things.  I have a howto to follow, but I'm curious whether it'll be a
> problem with those on dynamic IP addresses?  Does anyone know for sure?
> 

email certs in what context?  You can sign you messages no problem
regardless of what you IP is.  But I some how suspect that is not what
you are asking.

>     3. With the extreme age of tkined (and nothing really to take it's
> place) do people wanting to manage machines now just use MRTG and get
> over it?  :>
> 

If you want to manage a number of systems MRTG is part of a solution. 
You probably want to look at OpenNMS or Nagios.  I would recommend Big
Brother but they changed their licensing a year or so ago.  If you don't
mind paying a license fee Big Brother is a very nice tool for managing
all kinds of systems and services.  Been a while since I worked with
OpenNMS and Nagios so both have probably improved a lot.  More
complicated to setup than Big Brother but both are great network
management tools. MRTG is still a useful tool in combination with these
others.


>     Thanks!
> 
>     (For foreign or young readers, 'Johnny Appleseed' was a
> semi-mythical figure known in America for planting apple trees across
> the nation when it was still pretty new.  I'm doing the same thing with
> these beleaguered Windows users, with the hope of spreading the word in
> my town.)
-- 
Scot L. Harris
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