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Hi Shawn,
Re: Auto Server Setup with Multiple Servers
From: Dave Tanguay
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999
Time: 3:59:59 pm
Bear with me...cause I'm a little new to these 'scripts' and the automated stuff.
I was getting tired of entering and activating everything by hand =(
You can't just put a customer field called "Server IP"?
Have the variable <ServerIP>
You could list an unlimited # of servers.
And when the Optigold script executes it would use <ServerIP> as the HOSTNAME?
It would still use the same script and I wouldn't think you would need to develop
any additional scripts.
Remember, both of our Linux servers use the same exact keystrokes to add, delete,
modify accounts.
So the only difference would be the <ServerIP>
That is why I was confused when you said "So there are 14 possible scripts as it
is
now, 5 possible on each one would bump it up to 70."
You really wouldn't need to develop any additional scripts if the keystrokes were
the same on all your servers.
Just use the same availalble 14 scripts and have the HOSTNAME pull it's value
from <ServerIP>
Think that could work?
Regards,
-Dave Tanguay
Shawn Hogan wrote:
> Dave Tanguay wrote:
>
> >I have 2 different Linux servers with accounts on them and I use 1 copy of
> >Optigold ISP on my NT machine.
> >The scripts I use for the auto server setup are the same on both machines
> >
> >Within the 'Auto Server Setup' you can specify the IP# of the Linux server.
> >Would it be possible to list more than 1 IP# for the scripts to use? Like
> >before the script executes it prompts you 'Use Server 1 or 2?'
> >
> >Better yet, can you put this 'Server IP' as a field for each customer? So it
> >would never ask you what machine to put it on, it would be in the field
> >'Server IP'
> >This would allow the Auto Server Signup portion of Optigold to activate
> >accounts/features on multiple servers.
> >
> >Or maybe this was thought of already?
> >
> >Or maybe this just wouldn't work?
>
> Well, it *is* something I thought of a long time ago... but then I
> realized that I would have to define a set number of possible servers (no
> biggy), but say I defined 5, and an ISP needs a 6th, they couldn't do it
> without me defining even more. So there are 14 possible scripts as it is
> now, 5 possible on each one would bump it up to 70. Which is a lot of
> work. :-)
>
> So, what people usually do is have a custom script on their server.
> Optigold ISP passes a field they use to track what server it should be
> setup on to their custom script. The custom script collects the info,
> including what server it goes to, and then that custom script does the
> setup on whatever server is needed.
>
> It's a little more work on your end I know, but it makes it worth it
> because it's more flexible, you aren't limited to 2 (or 5) different
> servers. You can have an number of servers you want.
>
> - Shawn
>
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