[95825] in RedHat Linux List
Tools for ISP's...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Wed Oct 21 15:14:36 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:11:48 -0700
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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A while back, someone expressed interest in a set of tools for ISPs.
Something that anyone could use to maintain users of the system, in a
GUI.
At the time, my ISP was just beginning to undertake just such a
project. However, as busy as we are, it hasn't gotten far. Last
week, I was assigned to undertake the project, and see it completed.
I convinced my management that an open project would move faster and
be more complete, so I'm checking for interest here.
Goals of the project:
The software must be first, secure. It must provide for the
maintainance of all aspects of a user's accounts, as well as billing
and RADIUS authentication (probably).
Design:
At the heart of the project is an administration daemon, which keeps
it's data in an SQL database. The first clients will be web based, to
eliminate the current text-based menus.
Command line utilities will follow immediately, since there will be
the neccessity of cron jobs and the like.
At any given interval the daemon must print bills for the users. I'm
thinking of using Tex here, any ideas for more efficient systems?
The daemon will probably also be the interface for RADIUS
authentication. It'll have to provide this as some kind of module, I
suppose, since not all of our equipment uses the same RADIUS
interface. (we currently run RADIUS on multiple machines...)
I figure that I'll need at least three tables:
Customer Info:
Customer # for POS, Last name , First name, Street Ad., City, St, ZIP,
Phone
User:
CUSTOMER#, username, status(active, locked), type(employee, free, off
hours, monthly, quarterly...), expiration date, web space in MB,
personal webpage indexed (y,n), business webpage indexed(y,n), domain
names hosted
Billing:
Service, cost, and billing frequency for each service.
So...Is anyone interested? Any suggestions or requests? Anyone want
to help?
TIA for any replys
MSG
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