 | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||
| |
| ||||||||||||||||
| ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 Installation and Operations Guide | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prev | Chapter 5. Quick setup with Aptus Configurator | Next |
A Group is a number of Aptus hosts (Aptus clients) that share a set of similar configurations. Technically, it shares the some set of configuration files. Click onto "Create New Group" to create a group. Notice, to standard Aptus edition will only allow you to create one group. If you wish to have multiple group configuraitons, you will need to upgrade to Professional Edition or higher. Please contact ShaoLin Microsystems sales department for more information.
Enter a group name (no spaces and special characters), this will create a group path under /var/opt/aptus/<groupname> and Aptus will create a netgroup if NIS is enabled.
Aptus Configurator will help you to configure NIS. If you want to use NIS for authentication, you have to fill in the following fields. If not, you can say "No" here and skip to the next section. Remember you need a domain control system such as NIS or LDAP to centralize all your user login information across multiple machines.
The NIS domain is the domain name for NIS (Network Information Service), this is used for user account, home directories, host name lookup and authentication and many other important services in Unix networks. By default, Aptus Configurator automatically suggests the NIS domain name of the server, you can input a different domain name if your clients use a different NIS domain with a separate NIS server.
By default Aptus clients will use broadcast for NIS server. If your NIS server lives in the same subnet of the client, you can use broadcast to find the NIS server or else please input the host name or IP address of the NIS server. If your server is the NIS server, you can use broadcast.
By default, Aptus Configurator will use your machine as the network time server, if you have another time server, please type it here. Please also make sure the time server is reachable by the clients, remember to layout your network correctly or if your time server is in another subnets, the clients will need a gateway (router) to reach it. Select "Do not use time server" for disabling time server services, it is important to have time synchronized in a closely coupled system, file time and dates may be wrong if not synchronized correctly.
You may want to allow root login when first you create your group, this allow root to login into the group of machines locally. Notice, root user is a per host user special user and have different password in different machine, here you can specify a root password for the whole group, later on you might want to change it individually later.
