On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Ben Rockwood <b...@cuddletech.com> wrote: > Octave Orgeron wrote: >> What I meant what the such things have been left to 3rd party tools and >> products by Sun. That should change. Monitoring and administrative tools are >> essential and should be robust out of the box. >> > > I know what you meant, I was trying to be funny. > > I think we're of the same mind that a variety of Solaris features are > lacking polish out of the box. I'd go further to say that Sun has done > a poor job of providing that polish via add on products, and it seems > like the only way it ever gets high level features at all is through > acquisitions, which seem to whither and die after the fact.... > Management Center is a good example. > > I would personally like to see us/Sun put polish on: > > * LDAP & Kerberos (We need an easy to use, easy to manage, easy to > deploy AD alternative) > * NFS Security (consequence of better Kerberos) > * SNMP (what we're discussing here) > * FMA (still not robust enough) > * SMF > * ZFS Monitoring Hooks > * Extended Accounting tools > * BSM Auditing work that stalled (namely, an audit server to avoid using > local NFS mounted audit trails) > * ... > > > Too many users are creating custom tools and not opening them. Just > adding GNOME panels or focusing on GUI's isn't really useful, we need > easy to use CLI tools that make users successful very quickly and easily. > > benr. > _______________________________________________ > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-discuss@opensolaris.org >
I have some ideas on the LDAP/Kerberos piece, though I want to get other stuff out of the way before I start going down that road again (short version: _very_ minor modification to client libraries + added modules with OpenDS + install script with sensible defaults). I was also wanting to see where all the sparks and related projects go before investing too much effort. Now that I'm in a different job that isn't so time-monopolizing, I've been able to start working making faster progress on things. _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
