On 29 Aug 2007, at 9:22 am, Walid wrote:
What do HPC sites use for configuration/change management, and
configuration
monitoring other than cfengine, pupet (agent based), are there any
agentless
monitoring tools available to check for inconsistencies of of a
node from
other nodes, or deviation from a policy.
We use cfengine. But it's not agentless. Think about it. How can
you possibly have an agentless program to do what you want to do?
You have to have an agent program, because at least some of the
configuration files are going to be resident on the node itself, and
those files cannot be read from an external process without running
an agent on the node.
Nagios can be agentless, but it won't tell you anything about
deviation of config files on the machine; all it will do is tell you
whether the machine is up and monitor whether it's running
appropriate services.
Tim
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