YaST/Web

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Revision as of 13:54, 21 May 2009

Introduction

The goal of the project is a web-frontend for YaST functionality to enable remote 1:1 management of a machine.

The use case is configuration of a virtual appliance, for example running in a cloud. Therefore, the following functionality is needed:

Configuration:

• basic network configuration
• basic user management
• setting a root password
• set up mail notification for administrator including SMTP
• enable/disable running services
• locale and language
• timezone, date and time

Management:

• status overview (used/free memory, disk, ...)
• log viewer
• applying pending updates and patches
• restarting of a machine

Other important features:

• easy-to integrate 3rd party configuration web pages
• firstboot configuration wizard framework
• branding

It is implemented as a rest-service for YaST plus a browser based client.

Read Stefan Schubert's blog on the topic

The project originates from this research project

Installation

From packages

A build service project is located here

Build service repositories

Repositories with up to date packages is located here

You need to the following packages:

• yast2-webservice (core service)
• yast2-webservice-* (web service plugins)
• yast2-webclient (the web client)
• yast2-webclient-* (web client plugins modules)

Development and installation from source

See our development page for information on how to install from source or create modules.