[horde] Re: Re: High Capacity Horde & Email Environment

[Jacob Davida]

Thank you for the insight. I will go do some more research on all these
products.

Thanks everyone! I will probably be back later to cause some more
controversy ;)

- Jacob Davida

"Jeff Warnica" <jeffw at chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
news:1080767410.25106.58228.camel at ron...
> Etienne already answered some of the questions, so Ill worry about the
> others.
>
> On Wed, 2004-31-03 at 11:18 -0600, Jacob Davida wrote:
> > Sounds good Ill check StorCase and others.. but, from a 24/7 admin point
> > of view. I'd rather be able to login and move some DNS entries vs.
> > physically
> > going to mess with SCSI cables, etc. Or maybe that's not even an issue.
Can
> > the
> > standby machine be already plugged into a bus and be ready to mount?
>
> Some of their things have multiple independent external SCSI bus's. But
> even if not, there is no reason why you cant have two hosts on the same
> bus.
>
> You don't want to login and move DNS entries no matter what. You have no
> control over how other DNS servers will cache the wrong information..
> Not to mention even stupider clients.
>
> > Do you use webcyr-adm by chance? I also need a way to appoint "domain
> > admins"
> > so we dont have too many people with too much access to muck it all up.
>
> I don't. The server itself support per-domain admins. I don't know how
> well any of the admin tools grok it though.
>
> > > Also, have you considered using LDAP for storing user accounts, mail
> > > aliases, etc? For that matter, for Horde prefs in general? While
> >
> > I have considered it, but the learning curve for LDAP was higher than
> > my already MySQL knowledge. But i'm willing to tackle that beast again.
> > I haven't learned how to successfully create the schema yet.
>
> It is very unlikely you would need to create your own schema
> (extension). I am regularly amazed at people trying to reinvent the
> wheel vis-a-vis administrative databases with MySQL. There is no
> standard SQL schema. Some systems allow very customizable queries so
> that they can conform to an existing DB. Others do not, so you will end
> up with duplication of data. LDAP works. There is a standard schema. Via
> PAM/NSS all UNIX programs will just work with it. Many things inherently
> understand LDAP and the standard schema.
>
> There are no guarantees in life, but LDAP is the best bet for
> future-proofing you data.
>
>
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