> Yes, well, a network enabled dist upgrade or package > upgrade are the two things I would be looking for. > Unless there are tools to help maintain hundreds of > servers which are divided into different groups > available...
Yes there are. Commercial tools. And they cost a lot of money. Some companies, like a really large bank which shall remain unnamed, developed her own software deployment server (on Solaris of course) and the bank manages thousands of server with it. But, the bank also did engineering to make it happen. Standardized Solaris builds from Flash(TM) archives ensure that every server is *identical*. No ad-hoc modifications are ever performed (i.e. people NEVER log into these systems, especially not as root). In return, the environment is super-stable and they save boatloads of money and are able to deploy cutting-edge technology on a whim (which of course has to pass the engineering cycle, but in comparison to other banks, they are super-agile). That's something `apt-get` and `yum update` can't even touch. They don't even come close to doing anything like that. What you want to do requires a lot of engineering. Even if you bought a commercial software to do platform management and provisioning, you'd still have to do tons and tons of engineering... write specifications, manuals, do proof of concept testing, develop or have a test suite developed... there is no magic bullet. But apt-get and yum are not the solution. Not by a longshot. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
