Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Tim, > > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. >
If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our environment. I have written a script (called cfile) which has all the functionality of what we had cfengine doing for us before. It needs a bit of a work (since we've been using it for 4 months we've noticed some places it could be improved). All in all though, it seems to do the trick of managing a small network of near identical machines (hardware wise). It can also specially configure certain machines to provide services (dns, web, ftp, etc). I am confident that it would scale much larger. Tim, if you are interested in seeing my developement code let me know. It's implementation will be taking a big change, but it's basic working will be the same. (i.e. the current version of cfile will give you an idea of it's capabilities and features). I plan on making a debian package of it once I am done my overhaul and make it even more generic (I want to use this same tool on my home network, here at Verisim, and on several other friend's networks). Let me know. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
