Distributed remote LAN administration tool for Windows NT and 2000-based LANs: preliminary work

Author

Muknahallipatna, S. ; Kane, J.J. ; Hamann, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wyoming Univ., Laramie, WY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

61

Abstract

In recent years, a large number of businesses and universities have installed local area networks (LAN) based on the Windows NT domain model as their primary computing environment. The system administrators of these new computing environments are finding that the simple remote administration capabilities available in UNIX based LAN are not available. The Windows NT operating system, out of the box, does not provide a simple solution to perform remote administration. The remote administration can be achieved, if an administrator has the expertise in writing Windows scripts using the Windows Resource Kit or writing commands in the Perl language. The majority of current system administrators do not have time to acquire such knowledge. In this paper, we present the preliminary work done in developing a distributed remote LAN administration tool for Windows NT and 2000 based LAN developed for the system administrators at the University of Wyoming. The distributed remote administration tool is being developed with an object-oriented architecture and a graphical user interface

Keywords

computer network management; distributed object management; graphical user interfaces; local area networks; network operating systems; LAN administration tool; University of Wyoming; Windows 2000; Windows NT; distributed remote administration tool; graphical user interface; local area networks; object oriented architecture; operating system; system administrators; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Environmental management; Graphical user interfaces; Local area networks; Operating systems; Physics computing; Workstations; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2001. Proceedings. LCN 2001. 26th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1321-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2001.990768

Filename

990768