A large weapon for Webmin Linux system management
Guipei at hainan on 2005-04-11
The difficulty of Linux management should be greater than the Windows system to a certain extent, with a significant reason is a large number of Linux distributions, causing the management of different issues to not be the same. Today, I will introduce a Linux system management tool --Webmin.
Webmin's official definition is: Webmin is a set of UNIX management systems based on a web interface. The range of UNIX here is relatively wide, including numerous Linux release versions, as well as UNIX systems of different vendors. You can use any browser that supports tables and form processing (file management modules to use Java implementation), you can make user accounts, apache, dns, and file sharing.
After some trials, I feel that it is indeed a very good management system, which is as follows:
1. Simple installation:
I have almost unable to configure which software is like it is so simple, there are two ways of rpm and tar.gz, whether there is a way, several basic commands can be fully finished, I think the starters who have the foundation Linux knowledge can Simple complete configuration.
2. Powerful function:
Webmin is based on a modular design, which contains several modules such as system management, server management, network management, hardware management, cluster management, other management. Inside the large number of management functions, there is also a file management system written by Java Applet, which can be filed as the resource manager. In addition, there is also a function of a console that can be performed any command operation. I think most of the features can be controlled in the graphical interface. If there is no such thing, you can also add it through the console, there is no doubt that the webmin function is strong enough.
3. Simple operation:
Due to the Webmin Basics BS architecture, all operations are completed in the browser, which has a lot of help not to know Linux system, and graphical operations are more easier for beginners. There are many configurations inside, I have been a year. The Linux foundation is not very clear, I think it also has many of the operators with a certain basis.
Last time I strongly recommend updating the company's version server CVSNT to CVS, the manager is afraid to ask me, there is no graphics management interface, I think this system can meet him.
4. Transparent system support:
This is a more exciting feature. Webmin supports almost all UNIX operating systems, including all Linux distributions, such as redhat, suse, debian, etc., many of the UNIX systems, such as AIX, Solaris , SCO UnixWare, etc. In this way, the general operation can not pay a difference between different systems, and the processing configuration can be paid to the processing configuration, and each different system difference can be ignored.
5. Multilingual support:
Webmin currently supports English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and several other European languages, etc., internationalization support is a good help for friends who are poor in English. It is not necessary to have any operational difficulty because of the problem.
6. Open source system:
It has to be finally explained here, this excellent system is an open source project, registered on the SF. The author is an experienced system administrator in Australia.
