As Noam said, cfengine is really powerful when it comes to keeping your systems clean.
The idea is that you only start cfengine in your kickstart files, and everything is then automatically pushed into the machine. Of course, you would need to automate it before it happens, but it's a great way to have some fun and very good for the business... Another point its, that if someone changed a setting on a server and not though cfengine, it will change it back to the authorized config file. Cfengine can do more than control configuration, it could also be used like a distributed shell etc.. Ohad ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noam Meltzer Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 7:04 PM To: Maxim Veksler Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any experience with cfengine anyone ? Hi, cfengine is a tool which helps you keep hundreds of separate and individual machines configuration the way you want from a central server. that way you can also easily restore the configuration whether you have had to reinstall one of the machines from scratch. anyhow, cfgengine is considered a bit hard to set and configure. so you might want to look at a project called "puppet", it can achieve the same cause, but with a very intuitive configuration process. the idea behind puppet is that you say what you want to do and not how to do it. for example, if you want to define a user called "myuser" you will not copy the /etc/passwd file, or write a script which creates it using standard commands, instead you will write a small & simple manifest which says "hey... i want a user called 'myuser' with uid X and password Y", then you will bestow this manifest on the machines which you want to manage, and it will do the real scripting for you. you can do a very similar process with packages and almost everything you can think of. anyhow, i can go on blahing about puppet, but you asked about cfengine , so i'll stop here ;) - Noam On 6/3/07, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand whats so great about CFEngine compared to a normal scp of configuration files ? Whats the "real" intelligence of it? Has anyone here had experience with the application and will be willing to share ? Thank you, Maxim. (If someone gets this message twice, please grill the wasted bytes.). -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
