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management tools?



Hi Folks,

I'm getting ready to rebuild a small cluster (4 nodes, xen virtualization) that I'm using to support a combination of hosted services (mostly email lists, a few web sites) and some experimentation.

To date, I've installed stuff manually, relied on a high-availability stack (drbd, crm) to provide failover when things go south, and some logwatch/alert scripts for monitoring everything. This time around, I'm thinking about automating some of the install, configuration management, and monitoring work.

Which leads me to wonder: Those of you who run server farms on Debian, what are you using for:
- initial o/s install and configuration (e.g., FAI, other things?)
- software install/update/configuration (chef, puppet, ?)
- virtual machine management
- user management (control panels, ...)
- overall management (nagios, webmin, ...)

I'm sort of trying to get sense of what people actually use, and in what combinations, rather than what's got the buzz this week.

Thanks for anything you might share.

Miles Fidelman

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra


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