>are there any tools/hints/recommendationshow to adminstrate a pool of >debian-systems. > >At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some >resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from >administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and >configuration has to be done on every machine. >I'm thinking about > >- automatic installation/upgrades of packages on _all_ machines. > without the need to ssh into every machine by hand.
You can check here: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/. I haven't tried it, but looks promising. >- centralised configuration (nfs-mounted config-files, ...) >