Chapter 1. Introduction.

Overview

This chapter will describe the goals of our Network Appliances Administration Tool (NAAT for short) as well as design decisions behind it.

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NAAT goals

Ease of use, simplicity, extensibility. Different kinds of interfaces (frontends).

  • Ease of use

  • Simplicity (XML descriptions, perl and shell scripts, flat configuration file)

  • Extensibility (data-driven (events, frontends/backends separation with get/set api), smart files i.e. "templates", xsl rules for interfaces generation)