Core to our offering is 389 Directory Server (formerly Fedora Directory Server, and prior to that, Netscape Directory Server). This offers considerable advantages over OpenLDAP to the enterprise - not the least being much better statistics and usage reporting. We have created a Zenoss ZenPack, ZenPacks.lbn.LDAPMonitor which brings this oversight into your Zenoss operations centre.
Also included in this channel is the latest Kerberos, and FreeIPA which allows you to easily deploy and manage your public/private cloud administrator access with Kerberos.
We have a wide range of Plone/LDAP plugins and features which provide integration with LDAP and Active Directory for Zope, Plone, and Zenoss installations.
We've also created tools to migrate from OpenLDAP to 389 Directory Server and have a lot of expertise in (and definitely recommend) such efforts.
Don't hesitate to get in touch with us for more information around this suite.
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Chef is the final component of our large-scale server deployment and management suite:
We have also made available a public AMI of Chef for you to test and/or use independently on AWS/EC2 for your own instances. Other BastionLinux AMI's have the chef client installed by default. Full operating details of this are available at http://linux.last-bastion.net/ami/chef.
]]>Quite a number of organisations are experimenting with public/private cloud combinations - or are intending to. Along with our EC2/AMI offerings, these organisations can utilise their existing VMWare infrastructure across our SOE.
Similarly, a number of telco/cloud hosting operations are using the VMWare product range for their cloud offerings. We're making it easy to run BastionLinux in these situations too.
The links are at:
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bastionlinux-us-west-1/images/bastionlinux13.vmx
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bastionlinux-us-west-1/images/bastionlinux13.vmdk
If anyone would prefer .ovf formatted images, please do let us know.
]]>Our Plone RPM channel is at http://linux.last-bastion.net/LBN/up2date/plope/13 - which contains not only this release, but hundreds of other popular community Zope and Plone extensions.
Upgrade your existing systems is just one command:
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Our landing page in the AWS directory is:
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/last-bastion
So for all you Enterprise Plone people - get into our offerings in an Amazon datacentre near you!
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This image contains enterprise features such as watch-dog monitoring with monit, and a pre-configured SSL behind Apache HTTP to allow you to securely manage your Plone site.
Users may elect to upgrade to a paid BastionLinux subscription and then access all future Plone core software upgrades and our large catalogue of extension modules and products available on our Plone channel at http://linux.last-bastion.net/LBN/up2date/plope/13. We have a channel sales programme around BastionLinux, so please do talk to us if you're in practice and have a number of customers who would benefit from this platform.
This release also contains features to allow us to offer remote systems management in the near future. We will shortly be making announcements regarding our Zenoss monitoring service and our Chef configuration management service.
For full operating instructions, availability zope details etc, please visit our instruction page here.
]]>This release is hot off the press from Zenoss Corporation itself and there does seem to be one or two migration problems migrating from earlier release(s). We're probably not going to retrofit any of these patches, but will provide you full migration support to the 3.2.0.
We'll also be making an AMI image available on Amazon Web Services very soon if you'd prefer to discover and/or test features there instead of your own test/production environments.
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With Zenoss 3.0 to soon be generally released, this is probably the last 2.5.x series of Zenoss. However, this is still a significant release in that we'll not be making Zenoss 3.x available for some time. This is both to ensure stability of this major new release and because our Plone 4 timelines also need to be coordinated. We're anticipating a Zenoss 3.x release for Q4 but will release a developer channel beta those interested in checking it out earlier.
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For full release details and to download the plugin please visit ZopeMonitor on the Zenoss Community website.
]]>We believe that Plone (in conjunction with Zope/CMF) address a number of serious structural limitations with extending Zenoss. Plone4Zenoss™ installs a Plone site alongside your existing Zenoss/zport application and displays the Zentinel in a separate iframe. Vanilla Plone and vanilla Zenoss - Zenoss Core and Zenoss Enterprise.
The target audience for Plone4Zenoss™ is:
At Last Bastion Network, we have a huge investment in Enterprise-grade Zope and Plone which we can now bring into the Network Management space with Plone4Zenoss™. This includes our Zope-focused RPM/Linux infrastructure, Flash charting/reporting tools, project and programme management, and financial, cost, and management accounting.
In the future we will be offering commercial support, but right now we're looking for some sites interested in beta-testing with Plone and Plone4Zenoss™ to give us feedback. This simply involves us giving you a login to our download repositories and you installing our Plone4Zenoss™ stack (you can choose up2date, yum, red carpet, or python/easy_install - it's easy).
If you're interested, join up online and drop me a note.
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