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In a previous post, I wrote about the release of Open Panel and OpenCLI.

OpenCLI is going to change the way we maintain systems - for too long many repetitive steps have been automated hundreds of times by different sysadmins without having produced a standard. I think OpenCLI will become the standard that covers 99% of the tasks you perform while maintaining your systems.

See OpenCLI in action: http://blog.openpanel.com/2008/04/28/the-openpanel-cli-in-action/

The past months, I teamed up with the panel6 folks in their project to create a server/webhosting control panel “that eats webmins for breakfast”. I’m very happy with the results so far: the webbased GUI communicates 100% through ajax with the core system.

And it gets even better: it contains a command-line called ‘opencli’

Creating vhosts on servers is repeating the same trick every time. I know most people around me have automated this using ’setup-a-new-domain’-scripts, but handmade scripts usually lack proper errorchecking - unless you spend a lot of time writing them. With opencli creating a new vhost is as simple as entering ‘create vhost www.foo.com’ and apache is up and running the domain \o/.

Openpanel in action:

Jan 11 11:26:10 rory sshd[19339]: Accepted publickey for bmw from 10.0.0.246 port 2869 ssh2

I love it when a plan comes together!

Not yet 100% complete. it lacks:

• rf keyboard (ordered, waiting)
• playback control remote (borrow from friend)
• power plug in trunk of car (using converter on front 12v plug right now)