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| | 36 | '''''Summary''''' |
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| | 38 | ''The project OpenGNSys (read OpenGenesis) brings together the combined efforts of several Spanish public universities to build an application that allows for easy centralized management of computers and servers. With it allows the distribution, installation and deployment of differents operating systems.'' |
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| | 40 | ''OpenGNSys arises due to the need for provide a set of tools free and open to form a complete system of management and cloning equipment, versatile and intuitive, which can be used in the management of computer labs, computers and to reinstall servers. '' |
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| | 42 | ''It is based on a client / server Architecture. The client computer makes a connection request for its boot process and the server will return the data networking and a boot menu. In this page the user can select the default actions by the administrator, perform these actions automatically without end user intervention or enter directly into an administrative interface. '' |
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| | 44 | ''The lead management system is based on a simple web interface that lets you perform common tasks for managing software distribution to individual customers. However, OpenGNSys structure is versatile enough to suit the needs of different computer network architectures available in companies and institutions. '' |
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| | 46 | ''OpenGNSys consists of a set of separate modules in different layers of services.'' |
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| | 48 | * ''The lower layer is responsible for direct access to client devices and to cloning engine library.'' |
| | 49 | * ''A middle layer consists of a set of tools to perform complex tasks and customizing the environment. '' |
| | 50 | * ''The management and administration layer consists of the web interface and database management. '' |
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| | 52 | ''Specific processes and modify configuration data from each customer can be made directly once the process dump of the image, without booting the operating system, go directly to information stored on disks. This is a significant advantage over other similar products, including commercial.'' |
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| | 54 | ''In the current state of development of the project, allowed the cloning and deployment of Windows operating systems (including Windows 7) to FAT32 file systems and NTFS, and Linux distributions of ext2, ext3 and ext4.'' |
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| | 56 | ''Some of the main aspects of the future line of work are OpenGNSys management capacity of redundant disks, logical volumes and be able to clone and deploy other operating systems. The latter involves support new types of filesystems.'' |
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| | 58 | ''The distribution of images and files should be as flexible as possible, implementing different communication protocols, as Unixast, Multicast and P2P, and even also be provided with such information off-line (without communication with the server) go directly the local data cache for each client or an external storage device. '' |
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| | 60 | ''By definition, OpenGNSys is a Free Software project. As such, all code is licensed under GPLv3 or later, while the associated documentation is available under Creative Commons license. '' |
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| | 62 | ''OpenGNSys is the result of the integration of 3 previous projects developed in different universities: '' |
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| | 64 | * ''Brutalix (Universidad de Zaragoza) '' |
| | 65 | * ''EAC (Universidad de Málaga)'' |
| | 66 | * ''Hydra (Universidad de Sevilla)'' |
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