Re: Compute Farm, Part II
Behan Webster wrote:
>
> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task.
> >
>
> If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage
> our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did
> work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our environment.
>
> I have written a script (called cfile) which has all the functionality
> of what we had cfengine doing for us before. It needs a bit of a work
> (since we've been using it for 4 months we've noticed some places it
> could be improved).
>
> All in all though, it seems to do the trick of managing a small network
> of near identical machines (hardware wise). It can also specially
> configure certain machines to provide services (dns, web, ftp, etc). I
> am confident that it would scale much larger.
>
> Tim, if you are interested in seeing my developement code let me know.
> It's implementation will be taking a big change, but it's basic working
> will be the same. (i.e. the current version of cfile will give you an
> idea of it's capabilities and features).
>
> I plan on making a debian package of it once I am done my overhaul and
> make it even more generic (I want to use this same tool on my home
> network, here at Verisim, and on several other friend's networks).
I'll pass the info along, Behan. Thanks. At this point, I'm not officially
involved, although this may end up being a new job here at the Lab for
me. For some reason, 'linux@bnl.gov' gets routed to my mailbox.. :)
Tim
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