I have been through several presentations with BMC, HP and others and how their suite of tools can replace our current system provisioning and configuration management tools. They made some very big claims how they can provide the same functionality and also integrate with other vendors (VMware, Cisco, F5 BigIP, NetApp, etc) to ulimately provide a push button system provisioning and management. This sounds all well and good, but I'm concerned about my current Cfengine deployment. I would hate to see a specialized tool like Cfengine that does a specific job very well get replaced by another tool that does a million things reasonable well.
This particular vendor is now pushing hard for a POC/pilot with us. I suspect the POC will work as promised, but in a very basic island type environment. I can imagine the real integration will take many many months and we will discover in the end loss of functionality, heavy customization at a high cost. Do you have words of warning or past experiences you don't mind sharing (publically or privately)? Thank you, Tom
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