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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 at present |
| 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