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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

I would strongly discourage from running a separate configuration. Keeping it 
up to date, applying hot fixes etc. is quite an overhead and I do not see 
what you really gain. 
You can always download installers from CAT and redistribute locally.


Tomasz




> On 18 Aug 2015, at 10:29, Ole Frendved Hansen 
> <olef AT dtu.dk>
>  wrote:
> 
> 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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> DeIC, Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation, www.deic.dk
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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