[olug] System management tools

[Daniel Pfile]

I just ran across this link:

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

Looks neat.

-- Daniel 

On Nov 27, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Dave Thacker wrote:

> On Friday 26 November 2004 18:06, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I am currently looking for tools and solutions for maintaining system
>> configurations on many machines in a networked environment where each
>> machine may run one of several OSes, have several different purposes, 
>> etc.
>>
> I've read the followups to this thread.  I'm in a situation where 
> different
> distros, kernels, packages, and security options have raised my 
> overhead
> considerably.   I'm now in the process of attacking the problem on 
> several
> fronts.
> Most of these recommendations can be found in "The Practice on System 
> and
> Network Administration" by Limoncelli and Hogan, or "Automating UNIX 
> and
> Linux Administration" by Bauer.
> 1. For the short term, we've adopted SuSE professional as our standard 
> linux
> package.  I'm using autoyast2 to standardize and automate the 
> installation
> process.  I'll eventually break this into different install scripts for
> different classes of machines.
> 2.  I've been using rsync and cvs to distribute files across various 
> machines,
> I'm going to start using cfengine to further centralize and 
> standardize the
> process.   I've no experience to report so far, but my instincts tell 
> me that
> a substantial investment of time up front will pay big dividends down 
> the
> road.
> 3.   I'm working on organizing the machines by class.  A class is 
> defined by
> the work the server does, which defines the packages and security 
> config the
> server needs.
> 4.   I'm trying to get standardized hardware.
> 5.   I planning on replacing Big Brother with Nagios.
> 6.  I'm still looking for a utility to tell me how a machine is 
> currently
> configured.  One the utilities mentioned later in this thread looks
> promising.
>
> DT
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