[95946] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Tools for ISP's...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igmar Palsenberg)
Thu Oct 22 12:06:43 1998
From: "Igmar Palsenberg" <palsenberg@tebenet.nl>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <yinyang@eburg.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:11:19 +0200
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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.
Some suggestions :
Type of contract, data-limiet, data-traffic used, interface to
banking-software.
I'm currently working on something, but then for Windows. Because I don't
know X...
>So...Is anyone interested? Any suggestions or requests? Anyone >want
>to help?
Count me in..
TIA for any replys
MSG
Igmar Palsenberg
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