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Vintela Authorization Services
Check out Vintela Authorization Services It provides full integration and synchronization between Linux and Windows AD. We use it where I work, and it greatly simplifies things, so that for example, if a user is created in the AD, they can use their Windows credentials to log on to our Linux server.
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Vintela
You want to run linux desktops in an A.D. / Windows environment? Do you want them to integrate into A.D. and manage them with windows bases servers? If thats what you want, maybe you should look at http://www.vintela.com/
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Centrify or Vintela
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the battle for management is just warming upI think the Microsoft understand that the battle of the OS is not where the real money is - the real money spinner is beating HP OpenView in the server/desktop management space and also owning the signing-in credentials (Active Directory) - these two things are FAR more important than old wars against Linux and open source. They know that Linux boxes are always going to be in the enterprise so they've thought up a strategy to make sure that they are within the MS management pool. A caring & sharing attitude will also fix some of the perception of arrogance that MS have with the Office of Government Commerce in the UK and similar procurement organisations outside the USA.
for example: In most places I've been to, the customer has MS Active Directory in place. (I'm an enterprise TA specialising in Linux). That makes MS in a very strong position to be first choice for single sign on content management systems, document management platform and also system monitoring & management. The usual BS I hear is that AD makes it easier for the helpdesk to manage users and groups and so on.
MS have been quietly making big investments in enterprise management. remember SCO, how could you forget!, there was one product that SCO sold off to a management buy-out and was rumoured to have been heavily funded by MS - this is Vintela. Vintela sells a single sign on solution for multiple OS (including Linux) that will allow Linux users to sign in as AD citizens into Linux and be managed just like the MS users.
Another example is the new drive for MOM. MOM is essentially where HP Openview was some years ago. HP OpenView has never got the pervasive coverage in organisations because it costs a bloody fortune and HP have been too stupid to commodotise the HPOV server infrastructure into something cheaper. Also, having an enterprise OpenView system takes manpower to setup correctly. The result is a catch 22 - the companies that actually need it; don't have spare manpower - hence the reason they need an enterprise monitoring/management suite! MS MOM is a big step in the direction of Windows simple click (and break!) user interface that is convincing to management who will sign off procurement decisions. The MOM interface is surprisingly better than HPOV - plus MOM will also support Linux and Solaris boxes in the enterprise. I don't think it will be long before MS provides management hooks for JBoss, MySQL, Apache etc into MOM.
By entering the enterprise market like this; MS is targetting products at the areas that control the whole strategy or an organisation: authentication/authorisation and systems management. It is a way of taking control and ensuring that any Linux/otherNix server has MS branding on it because that's how it is looked after...
essentially; Microsoft *have* to include Linux in their plans for their big step into Enterprise domination - Linux is actually helping them in a way because the rapid growth of Linux servers has forced them to consider enterprise platforms that they have not really been competing against in the past.
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to late, to little
The product is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2005
Companies with large numbers of clients already have that funtionality. From Microsoft's own SMS in combination with Vintela's fantastic extensions for Linux / Unix / Mac management.
The catch is, most companies are MS centric, so they use SMS to manage their clients. With Linux replacing the Unix (if any) machines in those companies it makes sense to extend the existing management product, to use ONE solution to manage ALL clients.
Check out Vintela if you haven't. They offer client management, authentication and single sign on for integration of non-MS clients into MS-centric networks. -
Re:Fifty-Five nodes?C'mon, with the schema additions for *nix, AD looks like any LDAP to a pam/ldap client. That's all OD will ever look like.
Adding Vintella or Centrify to the mix allows to to manage not just sign-on authentication, but fine-grained network and client policy with the native AD controls. This is something OD doesn't come close to.
AD is the second best directory in the world - after NDS. NDS doesn't come close to the level of third-party application and tool support, any longer.
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Martin is referring to Vintela not Gnutella
Martin is referring to vintela which is a partner of Microsoft that authors SMS clients for non-Microsoft operating systems like linux. This allows SMS to manage non-Microsoft clients.
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Active Directory
Whether or not it's a windows solution doesn't always matter to big companies trying to adopt linux. However there is a solution available (although not free): VAS
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Vintela Authentication SystemHere is a product that will allow your Linux boxe[n|s] to authenticate with a Windows 2000 Active Directory. We were using it for awhile at my own place of employment, but we stopped when we found that the then-current version didn't work with Windows 2003. I haven't kept up to date with it, however.
Oh, and Vintela happens to be a Canopy Group company, for what that's worth.