LANUX™ framework is a large-scale infrastructure management web application focused on reducing organizational support costs by enabling system administrators and support professionals to manage a set of various system services running on remote servers in different geographical sites via a web UI.

The framework consists of a number of handler modules created for each particular system service actions (e.g. a module created for the Users service allows one to add/update/delete user accounts on a Linux machine). The API documentation and an MDK (module development kit) that can be used to create your own modules will be made available in the near future. The services that the framework currently provides for are listed below:

• Unix users
• Unix groups
• FTP (Pure-FTPd)
• Firewall (Shorewall)
• DNS (Bind)
• DHCP (ICS)
• Print Server service (LPRng)
• SMTP service (Postfix)
• Samba
• Netatalk
• IPSEC
• Nettime (NTP)
• Apache web server (Httpd)
• Network Backup

The framework has a web front-end viewable in any web browser that supports frames and tables and is based on Java and various technologies of the J2EE framework, including JSP/Servlets, Java Messaging Service (JMS), lite-weight Java Beans, and PosgresSQL as the back-end database. The framework also features an efficient access control system which permits system administrators to delegate management tasks to junior support personnel . The access can be granted based on the following parameters:

• Domain
• Site
• Server (which server can be managed by a specific group/user
• Server Service (who can administer a specific service on a given server)