Hi Mike, Here you go. Let know if need any more info.
Cheers, joe Joseph Boyer Jr Enterprise Technology Services Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] T +1 646.660.8352 C +1 646.284.8394 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:28 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: [SURVEY] How are you using Cobbler? If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious about a few things. (A) How many cobbler objects do you have of each type? cobbler distro list | wc -l 1 rhel 5.2 cobbler profile list | wc -l 4 ga,dev,xen,rescue cobbler system list | wc -l currently we have 37 machines, but once this goes global. There will be a few hundred. cobbler repo list | wc -l 3 repos, main-distro (static), updates and custom rpms (B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :) All rhel 5 systems. (C) How many cobbler servers do you have? 1 master 4 slaves (D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine. finance (E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps) nothing yet. Looking puppet or home grown, use to use cfengine (F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc) Yum and satellite/spacewalk (G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc) nagios (H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment? VMware and Xen. I do not differentiate any difference between a vm and a physical box. So yes all vms are installed via cobbler. We are only doing full virt, no para virt at this time. (I) Feel free to share whatever else you want :) I would like to see cobbler backended into mysql or postreg. It would beneficial, at least for my environment, to be able to run reports about systems installs and their respect installation configurations. Also we have the potential to have over 500 boxes in cobbler and I would like something other than flat files to maintain this. Basically I'm just curious as to whether system records are in wide use, how many people are using cobbler for repo management, and how many multi-cobbler server setups there are. I'm also a bit curious as to what other apps are in use at the same time, for potential integration/awareness reasons. This can help me better understand where to go in the future, and which corners of things are less relevant to the userbase. Please reply to me off-list. I'll try to report back some non-identifying aggregrate findings. Thanks! --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
