Hi,
Is there a standard way to remotely manage 100+ SUSE boxes? The machines are NLPOS9, which is based on SLES9, which is in turn based on SUSE 9.1. I need a way to remotely administer them, with cheaper solutions being ideal.
I'm not sure that there is a "standard" way. There are different tools. Someone indicated cfengine, which is the "oldest" of these tools. There is also puppet and bcfg2. I've heard that bcfg2 it's easier than cfengine but never tried it.
The problem is having to individually log in and tweak things on 100+ boxes. The administration tasks would be applying security updates, and working with files for custom applications.
I believe I can do this with two shell scripts, a "control" script and a "job" script. The control script would copy (via scp) and remotely run (via SSH) the job script to a list of servers stored in an ASCII file. Is this the standard way of doing this?
Shell scripts are for sure the easiest way to start and there are some scripts around
and i thought that NLPOS9 was supposed to do such things completly different. Whats about uploading new image with sec update installed (you can do delta image)? There is also utility to do same basic maintanence utility to configure boxes from AdminServer.
NLP is still based on linux, it probably has some specific commands, but I immagine that they should be scriptable. Regards, Gael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org