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Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Hemanth Gurunath Basrur — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:32:43 GMT

Hello Everybody,

HP-UX System Administration Manager (HP SAM) is used today to manage Network Interface Cards, Network File Systems, DHCPv6, DNS etc. through SAM's Networking and Communications functional area (FA).

Today, you can manage the following from SAM's Networking and Communications FA:

Bootable Devices
DHCPv6
DNS (BIND)
NIS
NIS+
Name Service Switch
Network Interface Cards
Network Services
Networked File Systems
System Access
Virtual LAN

We need your inputs and suggestions. Is there any other feature that can be included?

Your thoughts or inputs would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Hemanth

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:47:32 GMT

Hi Hemanth,

It would be nice to control HBAs from SAM. Presently, it doesn't have the capability to do that.

-Arun

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Devender Khatana — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:25:30 GMT

Hi,

I do not use SAM much so will not ask for much as well. But I have been viewving a lot of people adding default route to networks. It would be great if this can be done using a option in SAM.

Best Regards,
Devender

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Steve Lewis — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:47:33 GMT

Some of these may be configurable in sam already:

Since it does NIS, then how about LDAP?

Not totally networky:
host keys for ssh.
the ability to chroot accounts for ftp access.

What about simple firewall configuration (ipfilter)? Advanced configuration can be done by editing the file, but sam might be a good utility to help people get it up and running in the first place.

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Bill Hassell — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:29:25 GMT

Network security is becoming so important that it makes sense to include SSH, LDAP, IPfilter as part of the core OS, then have SAM setup/configure them. Another area in security is setgting up the /etc/default/security file as well as Trusted policies. The features are all related but not integrated. For the security file, a big oversight is a validity checker (parameter spelling, useable values).

Configuring additional LAN cards with SAM has had a poor history of success. Ideally, SAM could also configure APA (if installed). And a section for common ndd settings such as dead gateway detection, subnet mask rules, etc).

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Bharat Katkar — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:34:16 GMT

How about integrating "lanadmin" into sam!!
Regards,

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Geoff Wild — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:47:58 GMT

To be really honest - I don't use SAM at all for Networking - prefer to do it myself.

I'd rather like to see HP focus on continuing to make the kernel more modular and dynamic as well as removing swap on the fly.

The one part of SAM I do like is the "restricted SAM".

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Mark Greene_1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:23:44 GMT

Adding an interface in SAM for fcmsutil would be helpful, as would lanscan.

Also, if HP would bundle snort and include support for that in SAM, that would be awesome.

mark

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

Alzhy — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:28:20 GMT

A check that warns/forbids the user to proceeed doing a networking change if the current TTY (Terminal) the user is running SAM at will potentially hang.

Enhancements to APA configuration.

Re: Needs your feedback on SAM's Networking and Communications Functional Area

John Payne_2 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:37:17 GMT

Hemanth,

I divorsed myself from SAM al long time ago. If I were to want something in it for someone else, (like a currently non-existant junior admin, or someone on my team who doesn't do HPUX, but maybe I'm gone...), I would definitely like a subsection on HBA's. (As previously stated.)

Also, more troubleshooting tools would be nice.

Thanks
John