Mohit Muthanna wrote:
I'd suggest you read up on SNMP. And check out the following tools (google them):
- net-snmp ( an SNMP agent )
- nagios ( very sophisticated network management tool )
- nmap ( good discovery tool )
- ntop ( traffic analysis, RMON agent, performance monitoring )
- sar ( system performance monitoring )
- argus (network performance monitornig)
- rsync (distributed configurations, files etc.)
- openssh (if you don't know what this is, you're in trouble) - rcs, cvs or subversion (change control)
There are also a number of commercial tools availabe, but the above list encompasses most of what you will need.
I have to throw cfengine into this mix, too.
http://www.cfengine.com/
Free and perfect for management/deployment to large numbers of Windows/Unix boxen.
-- DS
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