On Sat, 22 May 2010, James R Grinter wrote: > Also, if you've got Red Hat's Satellite server, then its configuration > channels are useful (and, could be considered as a "vendor supported" way of > doing things, that any other sysadmin you employ might have reasonably > encountered before - CFengine, Puppet, Chef, etc. can be a harder sell), as > is its package deployment and inventory facilities.
I have never used Satellite Server, but it would be good to learn about. Probably one of the biggest roadblocks is that it costs money. It's not one of those things I can install at home from the CentOS project. There is a development project that would like to pilot a CM system, I may use that to leverage getting something in the door. My organization doesn't manage them, but I am on good terms with the guy who does and we trade ideas on almost a daily basis. One of the other things I am trying to figure out how to fix is that our current installs include hundreds of unneccesary packages. From a security and audit standpoint, it should be a fairly easy sell. Unused packages, if installed, still require emergency security updates or we face getting dinged by the Auditors. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
