Chris, I've dreamed of a uniform system for managing and tracking system configurations. Agreed that configuration management is no problem with a few systems, but grow the list to 100+, and there's many a potential management problem brewing.
I currently use some batching scripts to distribute updated code, but its far from a complete or ideal solution. The lack of free time has stopped me from building or implementing anything more complicated, but you may be interested in the following: The Arusha project: http://ark.sourceforge.net/ Configuration management tools: http://linas.org/linux/cmvc.html other... http://cbbrowne.com/info/linuxsysconfig.html I'd be interested in hearing of any other OSS solutions that have client machines updating to/from a central database with their current hardware and software configuration. Cheers, -- Martin Foster Phone: +61 3 9674 7659 Systems Engineer P A C I F I C Fax: +61 3 9698 4959 Pacific Internet (Australia) I N T E R N E T Mobile: +61 4 1608 4325 http://www.pacific.net.au/ NASDAQ: PCNTF On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 04:35, Chris G. wrote: > Well it's finally hit the point where we have a few machines where we have > no idea what's in them. As an ISP with several hundred machines, it's > become quite the challenge to remember all of the hardware. > > Has anyone made/found/dreamed of a script that can be run on each machine > to keep track of the hardware in that machine. I'm more than happy to > write one using perl/mysql, but figured I would throw this out to the list > and see if someone has found/written something they use. > > Oh, and for all of those saying, write it down as your build the machine. > I wish that would work, we just have too many people dealing with these > things and when a problem comes up, our concern is to fix the problem > ASAP, not count our hardware. > > Thanks for any help/ideas. > > Chris G. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
