I strongly recommend going with a pull process.
Bob
I believe that I'm trying to create a push/pull method. The pull method
(cron-apt) would be for minor updates/releases, but push would be used
for special cases (critical rollouts, individual adjustments). In
addition, the tool that I wa
s. keeling wrote:
> Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > s. keeling wrote:
> > I am not sure to which you direction you are referring. Why would
> i. Thousands of machines updating from repositories.
> ii. Thousands of machines updating from one/some local mirror(s).
Ah, yes, definitely u
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Ben wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
> > > managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
> > > recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master,
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Maybe, dsh -distributed shell- is a good starting point?
Using dsh illustrates a push-method. For a small number of machines
pushing works and for when you are monitoring the process manually
then pushing to machines work pretty well. But when setting up
hundreds or th
Maybe, dsh -distributed shell- is a good starting point?
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On 06/17/07 22:08, Ben wrote:
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Fancy extra features may include links to startup VNC/SSH sessions to
any given machine on the network, having machines call home via a small
script or C app, report their mac address to an sql database, report
diskspace, mac address, assett tags, deliver
All of our machines are identical... er at least the variety of machines
that we're planning to manage (thin-clients, servers). We do use tools
like system imager to image the boxes before they are deployed in the
field. I find apt appealing because it encourages our programmers to
compile thei
s. keeling wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
> > managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
> > recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
> > others sync off of that. Perh
Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
> managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
> recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
> others sync off of that. Perhaps that is
Ben wrote:
> I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
> managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
> recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
> others sync off of that. Perhaps that is the only reliable ap
Hi List,
I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
others sync off of that. Perhaps that is the only reliable approach,
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