[122747] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: centeralized server management solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Sat Feb 20 17:49:27 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100220213541.GB5426@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:48:49 -0600
From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sorry for top post, posting from bb.
Spacewalk is the open source upstream of redhat satellite. Can be used
for installation/provisioning and config management. Ties in well with
puppet and func.
On 2/20/10, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
> 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/
>
>
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