On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will > have internet access > Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards > Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting > to the centralized solution. > Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already > primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts. [1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/pt-install-advanced-deployment.html [2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/ [3] http://www.bacula.org/en/ [4] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ [5] http://theforeman.org/
