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1. Support

1.1 Available support

Do you need support? We can provide:

installation support

runtime support

training

implementation of new features

deploying a running hard disk image (running with vmware / xen / qemu or on your preferred hardware / virtualizer)

Support is available via:

E-Mail

ICQ/Jabber/AIM

in person

Why this is all free:

There is no pretension for support in any legal sense.

It comes with absolutely no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Personal on-site installation support is available, the cost of which covers expenses incurred only (i.e. travel, board, lodging, etc.). Feel free to contact me (mariogzuk AT technikz DOT de) !

1.1.2 Prepare for on-site consulting/training

1.1.2.4 Possible Topics:

Instalation uranos / vmware-image

Backend uranos (LDAP/Database)

Authentification

Modules

Connnectors

Available enterprise products

Software installation (metods, installer,introduction in the uranos methods)

Windows Scripting host

Commandline (cmd)

Driver integration (Textmode, Gui-mode)

OS Installation (image based, windows unattended, linux installers)

Inventory

Logging

PXE management

How to extend uranos (API introduction)

1.1.2.2 Optional Topics(not realy needed for unattended installations):

LDAP based DHCP management (isc-dhcp)

LDAP based DNS management (isc-bind)

global syslog management

global cron management

switch management

Wiki

Connection/Searching to existing request trackers

1.1.2.3 Exisiting environment:

available authentification systems

available user databases (Ldap?,Active Directory?, NT4-Domain?, etc..)

available virtualizer

available fileservice (Samba/NFS/...)

preffered operating system to run uranos

used operating systems in your environment

1.2. Features

Main Features:

support unattended installation of several windows OS and linux distributions

Install software (via network share or http/ftp)

Update software if a new version is available

Software repositorys can be synced from every place (see the flash videos in the media section)

central syslog managment

central cron managment

switch managment with SNMP support and error reporting

DHCP-Ldap configuration management

DNS-Ldap configuration management

TFTP / PXE management

Ldap editor/manager

PHP ssh client

Permission managment

Several authentification systems supported (LDAP, Database, Active Directory, IMAP)

Automatical add computers to database via arpwatch

LDAP or Database as user/group backend

Inventory of Win/LNX/UNIX/Andoriod/MaCOS through fusioninventory (http://fusioninventory.org)

Multilanguage support in the GUI

Online update possible, no more need to make a new installation of the GUI....

Highly customizable

Password recovery

Offline virus scanning

Offline regedit

Backup/restore included

Lifecycle Management

1.2.1. WinUAAgent

Many thankz to Michael Kolowicz who has written the agent. The agent will run as a windows service and handle the following tasks:

configurable timer for each task

install software which is assigned to a computer

install software which is assigned to a user (the software for the current logged in user will be installed)

update installed software

install c't Offline updates

1.2.2. vmware image

Here is the listing on the vmware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Because there are to much changes in the last time there will be a new image available in the second quarter 2012 based on ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Contents

Samba server (for WinOS and Win-Software installations) preconfigured for the use of uranos

TFTP Server with a menu based boot menu including unattended-boot, memtest and other features for PXE/BootP booting

DHCP Server (not started)

DNS Server (not started)

Apache WEBserver with an complete and ready to use uranos installation

Mysql Server

For more informations use the sf.net mailing lists or contact me directly.

1.3. Documentation

Documentation is available here. You can find also some German documentation on http://www.mykey-soft.de/. There is also an howto install uranos with XAMPP on Windows.

1.4. uranos DEMO

You are currently in the DEMO.
You can login via username: testuser password: unattended

1.4.1. uranos PXE demo

You can download the gpxe files from the sf.net download page. This images are based on Etherboot/gPXE. The included script try to get a IP address from you local DHCP server. After that it try to load the pxe menu you can find on this DEMO page located on sf.net. Here you can test the PXE menu and also start some entries from there. If you start an profile which is based on uranos-boot (e.g. offline virus scanning) it may take some time till the kernel and the initial ramdisk is loaded. Also you can start an unattended installation of the uranos server from there. Feel free to use the sf.net mailing lists to get more informations about that.