Re: Administrating more than 10 servers
Hello there, On 10/25/2010 04:19 AM, Randy Belk wrote: This is a must read for multiple UNIX server administration, http://www.cae.tntech.edu/~mwr/unix_infrastructure_management_from_scratch.pdf . Just want to thank you for the PDF, very interesting. If you are in town I can buy you a beer or similar :) On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ahmed Ossama wrote: Hi folks, Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was wonder what is the best way to administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch these servers such that all work like a clockwise with each other with the exact same updates? I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, but I want to manage the servers more efficiently. Any advice/guide is much appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" //Mattias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Administrating more than 10 servers
Thanks guys, I have collected a lot of info, I guess I have to arrange them into some procedures and steps. I will be using nagios and puppet, and certainly a version control system (most probably subversion). Also I am going export a site wide directory of the common files via NFS. And follow the UNIX infrastructure management from scratch. Ahmed Ossama wrote: Hi folks, Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was wonder what is the best way to administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch these servers such that all work like a clockwise with each other with the exact same updates? I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, but I want to manage the servers more efficiently. Any advice/guide is much appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Administrating more than 10 servers
This is a must read for multiple UNIX server administration, http://www.cae.tntech.edu/~mwr/unix_infrastructure_management_from_scratch.pdf . On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was > wonder what is the best way to administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch > these servers such that all work like a clockwise with each other with the > exact same updates? > > I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, but I > want to manage the servers more efficiently. > > Any advice/guide is much appreciated. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- - Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci - Intelligence is not defined by what you know, It's how you use it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Administrating more than 10 servers
checkout puppet On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was > wonder what is the best way to administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch > these servers such that all work like a clockwise with each other with the > exact same updates? > > I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, but I > want to manage the servers more efficiently. > > Any advice/guide is much appreciated. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Administrating more than 10 servers
Hi, Reference: > From: Ahmed Ossama > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:45:36 +0200 > Message-id: <4cc48ce0.4060...@master-zone.net> Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was > wonder what is the best way to > administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch these servers such that all > work like a clockwise with each other with the exact same updates? > > I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, > but I want to manage the servers more efficiently. > > Any advice/guide is much appreciated. Some of my hardware hosts answer differently to 'uname -m', also I don't want to have the same 'uname -r' on all hosts, so What I do: Have a site wide directory of common stuff, mastered on one host, & each host has symbolic links into its _local_ copy of /site for stuff that's common, & each host has it own /etc/ & usr/local/etc files for the rest. No central /site on just one host via eg amd+nfs, as that would be a single point of failure/ overload. To replicate /site to all hosts I use rdist6 , (you might prefer eg rsync) both in /usr/ports/net/ It's what suits me, but I'm not claiming it's best for others :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 spam formats. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Administrating more than 10 servers
Hi folks, Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was wonder what is the best way to administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch these servers such that all work like a clockwise with each other with the exact same updates? I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, but I want to manage the servers more efficiently. Any advice/guide is much appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
