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[Ole Frendved Hansen <olef AT dtu.dk>]

Thanks a lot,

I will bring up the discussion regarding running own installation.

Think they also are interested in using CAT for their own SSID.


Best, Ole
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Den 18/08/2015 kl. 10.15 skrev Stefan Winter 
<stefan.winter AT restena.lu>:

> Hello,
> 
>> One of our universities are considering running CAT on their own
>> server. I found the guide for installing
>>   https://cat.eduroam.org/doc/Configuration/tutorial_Configuration.pkg.html
>> but from where do one download the distribution?
>> 
>> Are source files available? Are CAT regarded open source?
> 
> The project home page is at:
> 
> https://forge.geant.net/forge/display/CAT/Home
> 
> and the section "Downloads" has the instructions for anon SVN access.
> You can find the released version tarballs at
> 
> http://downloads.geant.net/repository/public/Roaming/eduroam%20CAT?artifactId=Roaming
> 
> The source is open-source; it's a BSD-like GEANT customised license.
> 
> But this doesn't answer the elephant-in-the-room question: why do they
> think they need/want to run their own instance?
> 
> If there's a feature in CAT missing, then much rather than forking off
> their own, I suggest they make a feature request.
> 
> If they have a concern about server availability, then they can always
> dpwnload the installers for their local support pages. Installing and
> maintaining an entire CAT instance with all its multi-tenant features is
> rather heavyweight if you use only one tenant on it...
> 
> Also, with version 1.2, we will make more ample use of the data from the
> official eduroam database, and the features relating to that will be
> crippled if their instance doesn't have that access.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter
> 
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