Foss tools 13mar09_chn
ITM Group is an education institution located in India that offers various management programs across four centers. They have transitioned their servers and client machines to use open source software for benefits like being robust, secure, adaptable, free and avoiding vendor lock-in. Their network utilizes technologies like Fedora Linux, Squid, Apache, Shoreline firewall and OpenLDAP across various servers for functions like proxy, DNS, DHCP, web and file sharing. They provide both staff and students access through leased lines and wireless networks on Linux machines running applications like OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird. Their future plans involve expanding the use of open source tools for virtualization, clustering, VoIP and remote maintenance.
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Foss tools 13mar09_chn
- 1. FOSS for Education Prof. J. A. Bhavsar Group Head (I.T.) ITM Business School. Navi Mumbai, India, [email_address] 13 th March, 2009.
- 2. € ITM Group ITM Group was founded by Dr. P. V. Ramana in 1991 and has its corporate office in Navi Mumbai. We are predominantly into Post Graduate Management education and offer a variety of programs from four centers located in Navi Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Warangal. We offer Management Programs for Working Executives from 6 Executive Education Centers (EECs) in Mumbai We also offer programs in Hotel Management and Health Sciences .
- 3. € Why Open Source? Robust Secure Adaptable Free to download Access to source code Freedom of choice – No vendor lock-in Inclusive support for open standards A Lower TCO – Zero Capex on Software
- 4. ITM’s Network Servers are located in two server rooms, located diagonally across the campus. The server rooms house the switch racks and servers. The two rooms are connected by a fiber optic backbone.
- 5. Proxy Servers Fedora Core 8 Kernel 2.6.23.1-42 Squid-2.6.16-2 Apache - httpd-2.2.6-3 Sarg-2.2.3.1-1.el5.rf Ntop-3.2 Shoreline Firewall-4.0.9-2 Webmin-1.380
- 6. Two leased lines for Staff
- 7. Two leased lines for Students
- 8. Applications on Staff machines Fedora Core 8 Linux Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.FC8 Firefox-2.0.0.8 Thunderbird-2.0.0.14, Openoffice-3 Pidgin-devel-2.2.2-1 Stardict-dic-en. Adobe Reader8, kpdf-0.5.8 &kghostview-3.5.8-7 Sunbird, VLC Player, Mplayer, Gimp, etc.
- 9. Wi-Fi Access Points Connected to a separate network
- 10. Over 200 Staff machines incl. of CUPS servers
- 11. Over 500 Laptops use the Wi-Fi network
- 12. LTSP Servers FC5 Kernel 2.6.15 LTSP v4.2 Webmin-1.380
- 13. DNS & DHCP Servers FC3 with Bind -9.2.4-2 Dhcp-3.0 LDAP Server FC5 n Openldap 2.3.19-4 httpd-2.2.0 for GUI
- 14. Data X-change Server FC9 with Samba-3.0 Intranet Server httpd-2.2.0
- 15. RadiusServer (AAA) FC8 with Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.FC8 Freeradius-1.1.7-3.1 Apache httpd-2.2.6-3 MySql-5.0.45 Dialup_admin-1.62 Php-5.2.4-3
- 16. Data Backup Server OS: FreeNAS 0.68 Configured as Raid 1
- 17. ERP Test Server FC8 Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.FC8 Apache httpd-2.2.6-3 Tomcat-5.5 PostgreSQL-8.2.5 j2re1.4.2_06 jdk1.5.0_02
- 18. € OSS for Thick Clients n Laptops Operating System: Linux (Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu) Office Apps: Open Office, Thunderbird, PDF Writers Image Processing: GIMP, XNView Audio Processing: Audacity, MPlayer Video Processing: VLC Player, Miro Audio & Video Chat: Pidgin, Skype Rendering: Blender Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL Programming: C, C++, Php, Python, etc. Servers: Apache, JBoss
- 19. € Our Future Plans Moodle Open VPN Virtualization (Xen, Virtualbox) Clustering (Cluster) VoIP (Asterisk) Remote Maintenance (Putty)
- 20. € The Takeaway It is our belief that this model can easily be adopted by any educational institute with a little initiative and support. This model is equally suitable for any small or medium enterprise.