JetFeatures

Undecided about JET - well, here is a blatant marketing slide, that lists some of the key features of the toolkit, along with some of the more frequent requested ommissions:

Description	Status
Command Line Based	Yes
Web Front End (inc https)	No1
Can be run by non-root users	Yes through RBAC, sudo etc
Solaris JumpStart (netinstall)	Yes
Solaris JumpStart (Flash)	Yes
Solaris JumpStart (WanBoot)	Yes
Solaris x86 PXE	Yes
Solaris x86 GRUB	Yes
Solaris JumpStart (Bootservers)	Yes
Distributed system to remote parts of WAN	Yes
Distribution of media (pkgs, patches, images) to remote servers	Yes
Supports Tiers of JumpStart servers	Yes
Tailored installs per system	Yes
Ability to build identical servers from master configuration	Yes
Supports multiple OS installs	Yes - Solaris, RedHat and SuSE have been known to work
Works on Solaris (x86 and SPARC)	Yes
Human readable configuration files	Yes
Works 'out of the box'	Yes
Is available to the public for free	Yes
Is a core part of the Sun Field Engineers 'toolkit'	Yes
Has a large external Sun user community	Yes
Is extendible by third parties	Yes
Handles Veritas Volume Manager installs	Yes
Handles mirroring of system disk under Veritas or SVM	Yes
Can be used to install clusters, including clustered applications	Yes
Copes with Flash archives of source machines with mirrored system disks (SVM & VxVM)	Yes

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Although web front ends have been produced for JET in the past, no generic web front end is available at this time; they are mostly customised for particular clients requirements