The Xandros Managed Community

At the core of the BridgeWays architecture is the Xandros Managed Community. The Managed Community revolutionizes server management by integrating multiple independent servers into a “community” of loosely coupled servers that are aware of one another and the services they are each running.  At the center of the Managed Community architecture is this Community Management Server, which coordinates the information sharing between servers and hosts shared network-based user accounts across all servers.

The Managed Community identifies interdependencies among services and applies workflow automation to manage them. For example, if an administrator adds a virtual Web site to a Red Hat Server, Xandros Server checks for a DNS service running within the Managed Community. If a DNS service is found to be running on any server within the managed community (even if it is not the same Red Hat server on which the Web site is being setup), a graphical message  automatically notifies and prompt the administrator to generate the required DNS entries.