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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users best solution for managing many nameservers Post 33504 by RTM on Tuesday 7th of January 2003 02:32:31 PM

01-07-2003

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You didn't mention what OS....so I'll try to cover different ones:

One option - Webmin.

It's a web-based interface for system administration - good point: it's free. Whether it will be what you want I'm not sure. I only know about it because there was one person asking for help in administration of DNS utilizing it Matt's webmin problems.

If you are looking to pay some $$$...
DNS Boss
For NT or 2000 - DeEnesse DNS

Just do a search on Google for DNS GUI administration and you should find lots of choices. I've been fortunate that I can still use CVS and vi for the sites I have to admin.

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httppower

httppower(8)							     powerman							      httppower(8)

NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
	      Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
	      Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
	      Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
	      Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open source and distributed under the terms
       of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman

powerman-2.3.5							    2009-02-09							      httppower(8)