Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/10/07 at 17:58 -0700, andremachado wrote: > What tools are suitable for some of the remaining tasks: managing > systems, user accounts, monitoring such big deployment? To connect to all the systems and execute commands on them, you can have a look at taktuk and kanif (a frontend for taktuk t

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-12 Thread Henning Glawe
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:40:44AM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > In my experience, a FAI setup like this scales quite well (although the > updating frontend FAI-updater would need some improvements to scale better). ok, a few side remarks to the scaling of "fai softupdate" style of configuration m

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > As PART of a study about using Debian GNU / Linux for a massive deployment > from 5 thousand > up to 50 thousand machines (desktops AND servers) geographically distributed > across a country, [...] > Do you have some url more suitable for reading? > The similar sized and profile Debian

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Henning Glawe
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:58:16PM -0700, andremachado wrote: > Please, verify if a relevant tool is missing or if there are errors and or > omissions. well, as one of the FAI developers I must say that it is _very_ well suited for system management (using the "softupdate" feature and a SCM like

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Andre, I would suggest using most of the ideas outlined in http://infrastructures.org/ - though the text on the website is a bit dated, you can manage a large infrastructure of 50K systems combining the conceptual framework laid out by Steve Traugott, with Debian tools and modern configuration

migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread andremachado
Hello, As PART of a study about using Debian GNU / Linux for a massive deployment from 5 thousand up to 50 thousand machines (desktops AND servers) geographically distributed across a country, I searched for some installation, configuration and config management tools for this task size [0], [1