Mandriva Directory Server architecture

MDS is a set of OpenSource? components managed by the Mandriva Management console (MMC).

The MMC is made of two parts:

• An agent running on the machine to manage. We call it "MMC agent". The agent exports to the network several plugins that allow to manage the services of the machine. Of course, there can be multiple agents running on the network. The agent and its plugins are all written in Python. The management API can be called using a XML-RPC client or with Python scripts.
• A web interface (MMC web interface), that connects to the agent(s) using XML-RPC. The interface is written in PHP.