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opsi manual opsi version 4.0.2
4 opsi configuration and tools
4.1 Overview
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The configuration of opsi requires some data management. All non-server components are using a web service for
data exchange with the opsi server. They exchange data via the opsiconfd, and the opsiconfd forwards the data to the
backend manager which passes the data into the selected backend.
opsi supports different backends: Backends:
• File based
• LDAP based
• MySQL based
Using the file backend the data are stored in ini like text files.
Figure 1: Scheme: opsi with file backend
Using the mysql or ldap backend the data are stored in specific data objects.