Comment Re:Not so long ago... (Score 1) 96
and yet, with nothing to hide, you posted as anonymous...
and yet, with nothing to hide, you posted as anonymous...
It's funny, everything you wrote I was thinking as I was getting ready to reply to thread...
Our Sun/Solaris (F! U! Oracle...) are all supported with top-notch onsite support as well as being able to use the iLOM systems is fantastic. We also have Dell's and HP that almost all have their respective integrated systems. But I really think you hit the nail on the head with your reference to VMware. It has made so much more sense for many of the systems I admin at work. While our core database servers are all on bare metal, nearly every other 'service' is virtualized either in vmware or in solaris zones.
mod me redundant - just wanted to chime in and agree with the parent.
harryk
While you make the point of the model, you didn't specify your stance on the topic.
I for one am against the capping. I can understand the business need as additional content becomes available, it requires additional bandwidth available on the part of the ISP.
I currently subscribe to a 'premium' tier from TW here in Milwaukee, mostly for the additional upstream bandwidth. I did a quick review of my usage as tracked through Cacti, and found that on average, I use about 40GB/mo. An occasional torrent for a distro, plus some updates to windows boxes, and a couple of Gentoo boxes. I also have begun using Netflix's online video more.
What is interesting though, is that I haven't read anything mentioning the HBO on Broadband service that is bundled with HBO package I currently have. Will I be charged for bandwidth that is used for a service I'm already paying for (to the same vendor?)
Just some thoughts. I hope this whole tiered thing falls through...
harryk
I don't know about SSO in it's truest form, I assume you mean that after the user logs into the workstation, that they don't have to also login to the IM client. I never worked with that at all.
As for using the same user account to log in to both the workstation (XP I assume?) as well as the IM client, I had that working in about 5 minutes.
If it's not working, it's probably more to do with your ldap authentication than with either server.
Are you able to perform lookups from the CLI on the Jabber server? I would check that. Assuming that you can, the OpenFire server has a couple of tests that it can perform to help troubleshoot.
BTW - is this an OpenLDAP server or AD?
I agree.
The OpenFire Jabber server is rock solid and integrates with LDAP, has the ability to log conversations and generally speaking is very elegant and easy to maintain.
We also use the Spark client, which is made available by the same group.
Very solid setup if you ask me.
I'd have to 2nd this one. We are using Openfire with Spark as well and I have found it very usable. It can also integrate with an Active Directory tree (and OpenLDAP I'm sure)
I like the ease of use at the administrator side as well.
2 thumbs up for this set!
harryk
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