Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-06 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Tomer Perry, from the post of Sat, 05 Apr: Ira, xcat now went through major changes, and its now under EPL and hosted at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/ Though, xcat1.3 ( based on the old version) is still there. Hey, TomP! good to hear from you... yeah, I forgotto

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-05 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 projects at 3 different customers. I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it practically everything: 1. Configuration files 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) 3. UNIX accounts (users /

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-05 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi, I also agree with Noam ;) additionally, puppet give you free inventory tool :) I myself don't use Cobbler, I found it too heavy for my needs, I've created a ruby erb template for my kickstart and pull it out of a simple sql db - works great if you want to have customize options for

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Beware of Tivoli Provisioning stuff.. I spend few days with it, and with CentOS 5 (and 4.x). It sucks. really bad. (I haven't tried the latest version which came 3 months ago though). It craps the network config files, xorg.conf files etc.. Thanks, Hetz On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Noam

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-05 Thread Tomer Perry
Ira, xcat now went through major changes, and its now under EPL and hosted at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/ Though, xcat1.3 ( based on the old version) is still there. Tomer Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Beware of Tivoli Provisioning stuff.. I spend few days with it, and with CentOS 5 (and

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-03-31 Thread Ira Abramov
- Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same client wants standard images for its RD machines and desktops - all CentOS (and maybe windows laptops too down the line). Two common aproaches for that are Xcat and OSCAR, and I also had experiance with OpenQRM, but that product is EOL. Can

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-03-31 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: poppet Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does management, not provisioning. I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-03-31 Thread Ohad Levy
Checkout Cobbler. Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of servers... Ohad On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: poppet Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-03-31 Thread Marc A. Volovic
poppet - Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same client wants standard images for its RD machines and desktops - all CentOS (and maybe windows laptops too down the line). Two common aproaches for that are Xcat and OSCAR, and I also had

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-03-31 Thread Amos Shapira
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: poppet Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does management, not