[122735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: centeralized server management solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Sat Feb 20 16:36:21 2010
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:35:41 -0500
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
> Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access
> Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards
> Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution.
> Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like
systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3].
PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5]
is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/pt-install-advanced-deployment.html
[2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
[3] http://www.bacula.org/en/
[4] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
[5] http://theforeman.org/
