Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines
I highly recommend cfEngine:
http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/
It's a great tool for managing large heterogeneous networks. It takes a
little forethought for the setup, but is well worth it once in place.
-- Jeff
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
> seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
> Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
> heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
> admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some
> others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
> now as to the most effective way to manage these machines.
>
> We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
> Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far
> so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
> does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set
> of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
> provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
> which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
> machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
> all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in
> the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
> but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.
>
> My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who
> has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.
>
> Thanks...
> Steve
>
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