Windows and Active Directory Management from Linux
Browsing the web today, I found two nice tools for managing AD in Linux. First up is adtool. The home page is at http://gp2x.org/adtool/. This is a tool that lets you manage the objects in active directory without having to know too much knowledge of LDAP. You will have to know a bit about the layout in Active Directory, but you don’t have to worry about having to write your LDAP queries. This small little app lets you list out directories, modify attributes, reset passwords and more.
Next up is a package released by the ZenOSS group, they use it with their monitoring suite, and it is a WMI client. Again CLI only, but works great. I found it over at http://felimwhiteley.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/wmi-calls-from-linux/ and the package can be downloaded from http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/inst/externallibs/. It seems to be a python script with very little documentation. Based on the blog post, the syntax isn’t much different then that of the wmi client for windows.
Between these two tools, you could decently manage basic task from linux, and even write some nice scripts to do more. While these two tools won’t Network and System Administrators of Windows Domains out of a window enviroment all day, it will help those who still prefer Linux as the day-to-day machine.
The new O’Reilly book “Python for Unix and Linux System Administration” has some good examples of wmic in action. I agree though, we could use better documentation for WMI monitoring by the command line.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515829/
Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager
The new O’Reilly book “Python for Unix and Linux System Administration” has some good examples of wmic in action. I agree though, we could use better documentation for WMI monitoring by the command line.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515829/
Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager
If you do get some documentation out and you remember me
, let me know, I would love to add an update on this.
If you do get some documentation out and you remember me
, let me know, I would love to add an update on this.