I've got about 30 Linux servers (RHEL 5.9). I looked at Puppet. No one
in our organization was using it, and it is only free for 10 notes, and
I don't want to go through the additional paperwork to buy it
I currently use 2 tools
1. RHN Network Satellite. This keeps track of all the hosts I have
registered with it, and the patch status. This does not help with CentOS
hosts.
2. remote.tcl. This is a remote control script I wrote . It has a list
of all my hosts along with check boxes. I have a button that can turn
all the check boxes on or off. So, if I wanted to do a yum update on all
the hosts, I click on all hosts, and the yum update button. I also have
a command button where I can type most any LInux command. I also have
logging capability. All the output is scrolled to a region so I can see
what is going on. In my specific case all of my Linux systems are
running the same versions. But, if I wanted to query any version, I
could use my tool to do it. It would be very simple for me to parse the
output and only display specific elements, It is not a more general
purpose tool like Puppet.
I previously had some bash scripts that were designed to pull common
versions of auto.direct, auto.home and a few other things, but that
broke down when I started to have different security restrictions. My
tcl/tk script does just about all I need it to do.
On 03/26/2013 11:51 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
Love puppet for config management, but last time I used Puppet it was
servers checking in to see what it should do not me seeing what needs
to be updating and selectively updating what I want and when I want.
Matt
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Drew Van Zandt
<[email protected]> wrote:
You mean something like Puppet or Chef? Or something orthogonal to those
features?
http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-vs-chef
Drew Van Zandt
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Matt Shields <[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone know of software that will give me a dashboard of my servers in
my network, what software is installed on them, what software needs to
be updated and let me target a remote update for those pieces of
software. Say for example there's an SSH update for my CentOS 5.6
boxes, I hit one button and all those remote machines update that
package. Or there is a Windows update for IIS, again one button push
tells those hosts to apply that update.
Also, it would be ideal that this software would have a dashboard that
can be used in our NOC to show threat level
--
Jerry Feldman <[email protected]>
Boston Linux and Unix
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