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Announcing the AWS Management Console

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AWS Statement:

We’re excited to announce the initial beta release of our AWS Management Console, a web-based, point-and-click, graphical user interface that makes it even easier to access and manage AWS Infrastructure Web Services. The initial release provides an online interface for Amazon EC2, with additional AWS services scheduled to be added in the coming months. The console presents an intuitive, global picture of your cloud computing environment so that you can control your AWS resources without programming directly to an API.

Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at https://console.aws.amazon.com/. We invite you to have a look, start using it to manage your applications, and tell us what you think. Feedback links are located at the bottom of each page, and we wholeheartedly welcome your suggestions, requests, and comments.

My Comments:

I’ts much very the same functionality to Elasticfox. I was expecting more features on it like monitoring server loads and the like.


Holiday with Computer Lab Setup

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It’s been a long holidays in Philippines.
I was able to visit a private school in my hometown again.
Last summer, I’ve setup their Edubuntu linux lab.

The 2 servers are compose of a LDAP and a NFS which contains a centralized
storage for students and teachers. Thirty client machines are running linux
validates through LDAP server which also acts an internet gateway.
There are two more servers replicated for standby purposes.

To setup LDAP, I’ve used http://www.majen.net/smbldap.
Install it on the server and for the clients.
The NFS server is simply an ldap client which is
capable to maintaining file permissions to its filesystem
when it is accessed by students from another machine.

The NFS exported its /home dir to each client machines and running backups
at the end of the week.

Several shell scripts were made for the admin user. These includes
enable/disable internet using IPTables, smbldap change password
(wrapped using expect), mass password change for students, and
backup scripts.

It’s cool to see these Linux lab running smoothly.

Just another part of my happy holidays.