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Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines



On Oct 11, 2007, at 4:38 PM, andremachado wrote:
>As PART of a viability study about using Debian GNU / Linux for a  
>massive deployment from 5 thousand
>up to 50 thousand machines (desktops AND servers) geographically  
>distributed across a country,
>I searched for some installation, configuration and config  
>management tools for this task size.

>Some information about why Debian is suitable for this task?

Debian is suitable for many things.  So far, all you've told us is that
you need a lot of boxes.  Any unix-like OS will do that but we don't
know enough to know if Debian is the best choice.


>What tools are suitable for some of the remaining tasks: managing  
>systems, user accounts, monitoring such big deployment?

Learn ssh, rsync, and a good scripting language.  I use Python.


>Do you have some url more suitable for reading?

If you can afford 50 thousand boxes, you can afford a few good books.
Try something like "The Practice of System and Network Administration"
by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan.


Doug.



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