Take Control: OpenSolaris Visual Panels
08 Mar '06 - 13:56 by benrThe name might be confusing at first, but "Visual Panels" (VP) is a project to provide a next-gen graphical administrative interface for Solaris systems in an extensable and flexible manner. We currently have SMC, the Solaris Management Console... know it or not, its sitting there on your Solaris box right now, but I'm willing to bet most of you have never tried it.... because its so slow that you want to shoot yourself. Visual Panels fixes that, but also pulls together far more of the system into a single control panel like interface to manage your desktop, your services, your printers, and much more.
This project is really in its humble beginnings but its got a good framework underneight it already. Most interesting right now is controls for SMF services.
In this screenshot (above) you can see that when I look at the root filesystem service it not only shows me the start, stop, and state information that you expect but even shows me the disk usage breakout!
Here you can see my Subversion service running and its associated controls. Notice that there are also tabs to display the service dependancies, the log, and metadata such as documentation.
I encourage you to check out the Visual Panels project at OpenSolaris.org now. You can see lots of screenshots, learn about the Java interfaces, and get a good idea of where the project is going, as well as get involved yourself!
Want to try out Visual Panels yourself? Its really easy, just download the package, uncompress it, and install it (pkgadd -d osol0vpanels-i386-0.1.pkg). Once its installed you can start it with the vp binary: /opt/OSOL0vpanels/bin/vp. And you do not need to be running the latest and greatest OpenSolaris build to give it a shot, I'm running Build 18 on this system and it works beautifully.
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