[Fwd: Re: examples of doing syadmin activities as a web app]

[Michael]

> I've looked at it briefly (if I recall it is written in Perl).  I may 
> go back and investigate that more thoroughly but I still wonder:
>  
> - Are there any Python based examples?
> - Is webmin well designed? (Not trying to troll, just curious if it is 
> well thought out or just a hack)
>  
> If any of you were to design such a beast (web based system admin 
> tool) from scratch which framework would you consider a good match?

The main thing I've thought of doing is creating an XML-RPC based 
solution for admin'ing boxes. That way you could have some competition 
as to the user interfaces and could get some tools for managing clusters 
of systems in that way. Possibly make it so if a normal web browser 
connects to the web admin server then it's presented with a default UI 
as well as a section documenting the XML-RPC interface. If an XML-RPC 
client connects to the same server it can work with the system in it's 
own way. I think that'd combine ease of use with flexibility.