ONMS is the combination of the very best open-source network management tools pre-installed on Ubuntu Linux. Users can deploy ONMS using the virtual machine and VMware's VMplayer.

Project on SourceForge.net : https://sourceforge.net/projects/onms/

Tasks

• Determine how we will communicate
  • This wiki
  • MSN Messenger in a group chat room
    • Good times to talk are 16:00 - 24:00 CET (which is 8:00 - 16:00 MST)
  • FTP site for file storage
• Determine who is going to be on the team
  • Do you know anyone else who would greatly assist in the creation of this appliance?
    • Remo
    • Owen Brotherwood
    • Tristan
• Choose an official name for the appliance
  • Network Discovery Appliance
  • OATMAN - One Appliance To Manage A/All/Any Networks
• Choose the distribution it will run on

  • Dapper (Ubuntu) will be nice because it is new, has a server install, and SADFL is one of the judges

• Should a graphical desktop be installed, or will this be a headless server?
  • More points are given to smaller appliances
  • If there is no GUI desktop, how will users change the IP settings, install security updates, restart the box, restart services, etc.
    • Perhaps we should install Webmin?

    • Can security updates be automated with cron? Answer: Yes! AutomaticSecurityUpdates

• Get SSL working with NeDI using a self-signed certificate
• Install VMtools
• What other applications should we include in this appliance?
  • Syslog (syslog-ng, php-syslog-ng)
  • TFTP (tftpd, webmin tftp module)
  • RADIUS server (FreeRADIUS and dialupadmin GUI)
  • TACACS+
  • SSH server

Documentation

• Start some documents on this wiki, then convert to PDF when done
• What documentation is needed?

  • Perhaps a Nedi user manual can be created, then made available on the main NeDi page