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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - LISA-NT 99
Scalable, Remote Administration of Windows NT
Michail Gomberg, Craig Stacey, and Janet Sayre, Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
In the UNIX community there is an overwhelming perception that NT is
impossible to manage remotely and that NT administration doesn't
scale. This was essentially true with earlier versions of the
operating system. Even today, out of the box, NT is difficult to
manage remotely. Many tools, however, now make remote management of NT
not only possible, but under some circumstances very easy. In this
paper we discuss how we at Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science
Division manage all our NT machines remotely from a single console,
with minimum locally installed software overhead. We also present
NetReg, which is a locally developed tool for scalable registry
management. NetReg allows us to apply a registry change to a specified
set of machines. It is a command line utility that can be run in
either interactive or batch mode and is written in Perl for Win32,
taking heavy advantage of the Win32::TieRegistry module.
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