Brian White wrote:
I'm just starting to investigate SIS, so please bear with me if I don't grasp the entire thing just yet.
Currently I'm using a home-brewed configuration management system. All of the install is done manually (yuck!) and then the CFILE program goes through and changes many configuration files to whatever is appropriate.
My reading of SystemConfigurator has led me to believe that it can do basic configuration to handle network cards and the like, but doing more would involve writting a script to generate these files. Is that correct? I'd appreciate info or pointers to documentation on this.
The way to this is install the node with systemimager/systemconfigurator. So the node is up and running. When the node boots then run your CFILE program to setup node the way you want.
Okay. I considered this but it would be nice to keep everything within the same tool suite. Question: Would the rsync process not try to overwrite the modified files?
First run systemimager (rsync) and after the install your favourite configuration software. Sysconfigurator is to my knowledge for setting up the bootloader and network settings and maby some other stuff.
What i always do is install the node with systemimager/systemconfigurator. When this install is completed the node boots and one of my init.d scripts calls 'cfengine' (www.cfengine.org). This will finish the configuration of the node.
We tried CFENGINE originally but found it lacking. It's good at what it does, but trying to use it to generically modify configuration files was painful at best. The new v2 does not seem to add much to that, either. When we originally talked with Mark Burgess (auther of cfengine) he stated that such was not the design goal of the program.
I am familiar with cfengine and Mark Burgess. I run a cfengine setup for 8 years and it does what i want. But there are also other software for this purpose. You have to find the software you are comfortable with.
Regards
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