SEPP: Software Installation and Sharing System

SEPP is an application installation, sharing and packaging solution for large, decentrally managed Unix environments. SEPP can be used without making modifications to the organizational structure of the participants' servers. It provides consistent application setup, documentation, wrapper scripts and usage logging as well as version concurrency and clean software removal. This paper first gives an overview of products already available in this field and then goes on describing SEPP. Motivation The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has a fairly large installation of Unix workstations. At the Department of Electrical Engineering alone, there are more than 400 workstations in operation. Most laboratories in this Department have their own system managers and file servers. The advantage of this distribution of responsibilities is that management happens close to the users. The disadvantage is that it leads to a multiplication of efforts in respect to software ins...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: LISA
• Authors: Tobias Oetiker
• Keywords: Application Installation, LISA 1998, Operating System, Software Installation, Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology In Zurich