Ira, xcat now went through major changes, and its now under EPL and hosted at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/ Though, xcat1.3 ( based on the old version) is still there.
Tomer Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Beware of Tivoli Provisioning stuff.. > > I spend few days with it, and with CentOS 5 (and 4.x). It sucks. > really bad. (I haven't tried the latest version which came 3 months > ago though). It craps the network config files, xorg.conf files etc.. > > Thanks, > Hetz > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 projects >> at 3 different customers. >> I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it >> practically everything: >> 1. Configuration files >> 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) >> 3. UNIX accounts (users / passwords / groups) >> 4. Everything you can just imagine. >> It is highly customizable and very robust (gee.. what a bunch of buzz words, >> but i do agree with them here). >> With every project I have deployed I learned new features of puppet and >> developed a bigger appreciation for the product. >> >> Regarding the kickstart part, Cobbler is a nice tool, which I can also >> recommend, but personally I just prefer "vanilla" kickstart, as I have >> better control over it (atleast, that's how I feel) and I already have a >> template ks.cfg profile and post install script which I carry with me from >> one place to another. Once I get to the post install scripts, I deploy a >> puppet client, and let it do the rest of the job. >> >> - Noam >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Checkout Cobbler. >>> >>> Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of >>> >> servers... >> >>> Ohad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov >>> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: >>>> >>>>> poppet >>>>> >>>> Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more >>>> of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does >>>> management, not provisioning. >>>> >>>> I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to >>>> remote-install blades and tower machines via PXE from a smart kickstart >>>> or other type of image server. Management after provisioning is a bonus, >>>> not a must. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Ira. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Gzunda the desk >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Ira Abramov >>>> http://ira.abramov.org/email/ >>>> >>>> ================================================================= >>>> To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >>>> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >>>> echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]