Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu (06/05/91)
Does anyone know of any software (free or *very* low cost) that makes daily operations of a lab of workstations easy? What I'm looking for are solutions to problems such as process 123 on machine ABC needs to be killed and a student employee should be able to do this without root access and preferably from any workstation on net simply by saying something like "kill 123 on ABC" - ideal goal is a screen/menu interface. Kill isn't the only thing I need the students to be able to do, other things are shutdown, delete print jobs, file backup and restore, etc. Students are *not* unix-knowledgeable so *simple* is important. I need something like this and before I get too deep into trying to develop something, I was hoping others would have done something like this - this can't really be a very unique requirement. Even if what you're using isn't very sophisticated, it might be better than what I have rigged up now out of desperation and it might give me ideas if I have to do something myself. Thanks. Marlys A. Nelson System Manager, Network Manager, Academic Computing Programmer, etc., etc. Univ of Wisconsin - River Falls River Falls, WI 54022 BITNET: ACS_MN@UWRF (until 6/30/91) Internet: Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu