Hi Since there are a lot of system configuration tools (both commercial and open-source), it is difficult to know what tool if right for you. Therefore, we developed a framework that you can use to compare system configuration tools. This framework, together with a set of 11 tools that are evaluated using this framework will be published in a paper and presented at the LISA'10 conference (http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10).
Since Cfengine3 is a well known tool within the system administration community, we included it in our comparison. We also set up a website that accompanies the paper. On this website, you will find the full evaluation of Cfengine3 at http://sysconfigtools.cer-wiki.info/tool/cfengine3. My question to you: if you want to help us making this website and our paper better, please review Cfengine3 (or other tools you are familiar with) and provide us with comments, either by email or using the comment-facility on the website. The website URL is temporary, we are going to migrate this website a 'official' university URL. You will see that for each tool, there exist a large number of properties that are evaluated. Clicking on these properties gives you an overlay with more information about that property. Note that the deadline for the paper submission is the 24th of august. Comments that might trigger chances in the paper should be received before that date. We are going to maintain this website, so comments are also welcome after the 24th of august. Thank you very much in advance Kind Regards Thomas Delaet Post-doctoral Researcher DistriNet, dept. Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Belgium Bart Vanbrabant Doctoral Researcher DistriNet, dept. Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Belgium _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
