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this is so obvious it never occured to me! thank you!!!!!
Re: Auto Server Setup with Multiple Servers
From: Aaron Lynch
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999
Time: 6:46:55 pm
-Aaron
I'm going to take a shot in the dark here. You hear the word moron quite often, don't you? -John Frazier
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> From: owner-isp-list@data-point.com
> [mailto:owner-isp-list@data-point.com]On Behalf Of Troy Harris
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 5:30 PM
> To: Optigold ISP List
> Subject: Re: [Optigold-ISP] Auto Server Setup with Multiple Servers
>
>
> One of Optigold's best features is it's auto server functions.
>
> Optigold's system is very simple and I can't think of any other way it
> could be better (In fact, I can't for the life of me figure
> out why other
> billing packages don't do what Optigold does. Very simple,
> yet powerful).
>
> What we would do, for the situation you are talking about, is set up
> different Account Types for the different servers.
> We would use the command line function in the Auto Server setup to rsh
> into the Linux machine with the scripts set up.
>
> The scripts (we would probably use python, but you could use
> whatever you
> wanted) would look at account type and see what server it
> should create
> the account on, and do it accordingly. With Optigold's access to the
> command line and scripts, you can do just about anything you
> want without
> Shawn having to code in extra features. :)
>
> -troy
>
> sig = ["Troy Harris", "Digitaldune Networks"]
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> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, 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
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > Shawn D. Hogan
> > President, Digital Point Solutions
> > http://www.digitalpoint.com
> > (619) 452-3696
> >
> >
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