On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:43 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > And actually implemented it better than I had in mind. > > My name is Arthur Pemberton, and I was just browsing through the > Google Summer of Code 2008. And it looks a lot like this idea that I > had in mind, except that i did actually start coding it, except for > starting a file tree [1]. > > So I am curious as to if working on this to kind of merge in my > (incomplete) idea would be a welcomed GSoC project. > > So here is the idea I had: > > First of all, I named my idea LiCo (short for Linux Commander). The > idea was to make point and click admin types comfortable with managing > groups of machines (so forgive any proceeding Windows analogies). I > was going to create a UI, the only part I actually started, with PyQt > and use python over SSH to command n number of Linux machines to do > simple operations: 'update machine', 'sync time', 'copy remote file' > > A typical use case would be: > 1) browse through machines and machine groups > 2) choose machines machine groups (list of machines would be flattened > internally) > 3) Create a batch of actions to run against those machines > 4) Hit the 'Run' button > 5) Operations begin executing in the background (probably with the > ability to attach a viewing window to any machine) > Features I had in mind: > * plugin architecture (each plugin would handle its actions, and draw > any required dailog boxes) > * capable of handling valid combinations of: password login, key > login, root login (sudo, su -) > * run well across Windows, Linux and MacOS > * could be "compiled" with py2exe for Windows. > * be able to organize machines into non-exclusive groups This remember me www.opensymbolic.org :) Symbolic is not written in python (not yet) but in groovy (JDK based), and is a web application...The basic features matches. Cheers Luca _______________________________________________ Func-list mailing list Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list
