At 09:29 AM 3/15/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I just saw this for the first time: http://systemimager.org
>
>This is an excellent tool for maintaining large beowulf clusters.
>It's author, Brian Finley, is a VA Linux guy.
I knew that this was yet another Good Thing (tm) to come out of VA. IMHO,
this is better than either Kickstart or Ghost (more for the windows people
anyway).More than Beowulf, this could be used to install and maintain
entire environments. If a sysadmin team used this to build all of the
desktops in their charge, the first benefit would be a major saving of
time. But beyond that, it would allow the sysadmins to control and
customize the desktops from the beginning, and to update all desktops
quickly and easily. All it would take is a cron job on the desktop to check
the golden client on a daily, or weekly basis to check for updates. You
could also use this to enforce security policies, etc. IMNSHO, this system
would not only improve the ease of life for a sysadmin, but it would
improve the *QUALITY* of life, as well.
On the server side, you could roll out an entire infrastructure with ease.
You could install a pre-configured OS on a hundred systems all at once, and
then just do the function-specific tweaking on each machine. I like it. My
hat's off to VA for this one.
Kenny
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