Administering other systems with SCOadmin managers

Several SCOadmin managers enable you to manage other SCO OpenServer systems on your network. Two types of administration are supported: remote and distributed.

With remote administration, you can manage one remote system at a time. For example, you can add a printer to another system. To add that printer to additional systems, you need to repeat the procedure, once for each system.

With distributed administration, you can manage multiple systems at one time. For example, you can add a user to multiple systems in one step.

Generally speaking, remote administration entails minimal setup but does require repetitive steps to accomplish a task (such as providing a printer definition to multiple systems). Distributed administration, while requiring additional overhead in configuration, allows you to perform a task (such as distributing a user to multiple networked machines) in one step or procedure.