Sebastien, I have been looking for something very similar. I have the need to control ~300 machines that act as the gateway for many different networks. The software on the machines would be nearly identical. All of the decision about which packages get released to which machine would be controlled by a server. I would need to be able to create groups of machines which should get one package while other machines wouldn't, etc. I guess I really am looking for a red hat network for debian. I asked about this kind of thing in #debian-custom and someone there pointed me to cfengine2, parrot, and/or FAI (Fully Automated Install). Of these parrot seemed to be the most appropriate and most active. I wonder how close I/we can get to this kind of system by cobbling together existing tools.
Mark. On 7/13/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello I'm looking for software that could help me deploying, and keep track of installed software on my machines. We have more 10 Debian servers and 40 end-user machines. I dream of a software solution like this : - web based, - that could keep track of installed Debian machines, - that owns its own repositories ( depending on groups of machines, say Office, Server, Development, Advanced Users... ) - that can update its own repositories depending on available upgrades on Debian Mirrors - that can push updates to installed machines, - keep track of OS versions, and packages diff - manually push specific debian packages on machines, and ask machines for updates - show diffs between local installed packages and repositories Somewhere, it's a server-side Synaptic, like RedHat Network, but for Debian. Does something like this exists ? Does someone's interested in this so we could eventually collaborate on this ? Sébastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
