What the heck is RPC-Admin?

RPC-Admin is a modular and extensible server administration infrastructure. Based on a RPC protocol (currently SOAP (apache axis implementation) is our choice) sent over an exncrpyted connection (currently HTTP with SSL) the server will authenticate the client (with a username/password combination) and offer him a set of adminstration modules, based on the user's access rights. The access rights of each user can be defined on the server side.
The infrastructure will include:a platform independent Java server,a set of default (mostly system-dependent) administration modules, a C/C++ client for windows and for Unix/Linux based systems,a Java client for use on all available java platforms.
The server is supposed to be extensible by anyone who wants to write his own modules. Interfaces and detailed documentation will be provided in the course of implementation.
The default set of modules will offer functions like shutting down the server machine, starting/shutting down other server programs, cleaning up logfiles etc.

What's the current state/version of RPC-Admin?

RPC-Admin version 0.0.0.0 Alpha has just been released. :-)

Some useful links...

Project summary The sourceforge summary site of this project. Access to web CVS, forums, bugtracker etc is provided here
CVS-Repository A direct link to the web CVS repository where you can fetch the most current version