Zivios in 3 lines

Zivios is a web based control panel which brings together vital open source technologies needed by medium and large enterprises. At it's core, Zivios provides identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote management of services.

Check the screenshot and features page for more details.

Installation

The wiki of Zivios contains a manual for the Automated Webbased installation. Don't let yourself be fooled by the word 'automated', the installation is indeed trough a webbased wizard, but before getting that wizard some manual steps are required to handle the dependencies. The manual is very clear about all the steps, it's mainly copy paste and common sense. Once these manual installations (apt-get) have been performed the next steps are web-based.

I got into contact with mhashmi, the guy responsible for the webbased installer. He confirmed that they plan to "have packages for ubuntu, debian and possible the rh family of distros for 0.6.0". That would indeed be better than right now where the webbased wizard compiles loads of stuff. Personally I'm not pro on having a compiler on a production server.

The web interface

Before clicking everywhere a Zivios-novice should read the Getting Started With Zivios tutorial.

Fill in the information correctly as it looks like the current version (0.5.1) has no support for editing the objects you created. You will get the 'not-so-comic' message: "Why didn't you enter everything right the first time?".

While continuing playing around with this software I came across many unimplemented features and quite some bugs (they have been reported of course).

Conclusion

Zivios has a promising future if they implement what they say they will.
But currently it's very far from something usable.