[CLUE-Tech] extranet

[Jesse Flygare]

Hello Linux Gurus...
Long time reader, first time mailer :-)

I have a question perhaps you guys might have some ideas. I work in an 
environment that connects our office to almost all of our clients over a 
wan. The systems we are connected to on the client side are mostly HP-UX and 
AIX with a few DG machines in the mix. Currently, our administration over 
these machines is rather hodge podge. We must must telent to the machine 
through a proxy and perform all tasks that way. There is a great deal of 
redundant administrative work (read logs, check file systems, see 
processes... etc) that takes a great deal of time because of the way we have 
this setup. Here is what I want to do:

Have a linux server at our office run an extranet to our client machines. I 
want to create a web interface for any task we redundantly perform on the 
client machines. Here is the caviot.... We do not own these machines and 
there are far too many to coordinate a client wide standard install of any 
additional software. So I must use the tools already available. I hate to 
say it but not even ssh is available on all machines. As far as I know, 
telnet is the only absolute standard way of connecting to these machines we 
have. (Perhaps you have some suggestions of things I can check for). Our wan 
is very secure, which is the only reason I feel comfortable with telnet. I 
would even use rsh if it was available on all machines.

Assuming telnet is my only option... what tools are there availible to me 
for building a web interface to these machines? I can create perl scripts 
and use cgi, but I am hoping there might be something available more 
specifically designed for my situation.

Any information you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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