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Table of Contents
I. An overview of the SME Server: ;; 1. About this manual

2. Who should read this manual? 3. What is the SME Server? 4. Design philosophy ;;; Principle 1: Automating best practice

Principle 2: Simplicity Principle 3: Extensibility Principle 4: Reliability

5. Architecture overview

II. SME Server internals

;; 6. Configuration database

The configuration databases Namespace issues

7. Actions and events ;;; Actions

Events

8. Configuration file templates ;;; Design of the template system

The Text::Template module Template expansion

9. Process startup, supervision and shutdown ;;; Process startup

Process supervision: runit (and supervise)

10. The server-manager web interface ;;; The web directory

Web function scripts Common files Panel definitions

III. How to create an SME Server package - step by step

;; 11. Getting started

;;; Creating a development environment
12. Getting to know how to customize the SME Server: ;;; Exercise 1: Changing a configuration template

Exercise 2: The magic of templates Exercise 3: Using events and actions Exercise 4: Adding new configuration database parameters Exercise 5: Adding a user interface screen Exercise 6: Adding a new event type Exercise 7: Thought experiment - adding a new server application Customization guidelines

13. Packaging your application ;;; A quick introduction to RPMs

Selecting and creating RPMs for your application Setting up your RPM development environment Building an RPM

14. The SME Server development environment ;;; Configuring your development environment

Modifying an SME Server package SourceForge developer CVS access

IV. Advanced customization of the SME Server

;; 15. Advanced customization principles

;;; Leveraging the provisioning system for users, groups, and i-bays

Programmatically creating users, groups, and i-bays Reserving accounts to avoid conflicts with user, group, or i-bay names Adding new account properties Using the LDAP server Data backup Using the MySQL database Sending email messages Managing the firewall Starting up programs automatically upon system boot

V. Documentation and resources

;; 16. Perl modules

VI. License texts

;; A. GNU Free Documentation License

APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS VERBATIM COPYING COPYING IN QUANTITY MODIFICATIONS COMBINING DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS TRANSLATION TERMINATION FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

B. GNU General Public License ;;; Preamble

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

List of Tables
3-1. SME Server software
7-1. SME Server standard events
10-1. Web interface directories
14-1. SME Server package directory layout
15-1. SME Server software

List of Figures
5-1. SME Server Architecture

I. An overview of the SME Server

Table of Contents
1. About this manual
2. Who should read this manual?
3. What is the SME Server?
4. Design philosophy
5. Architecture overview

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