On 11/2/06, Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've used cfengine on large (500+ nodes) Linux clusters. There lots of things I wish were better in cfengine, but I haven't found a more capable tool. For one-time mass administration tasks, I use dsh from sysutils/clusterit, though the scenario you describe above seems cfenginy to me.
I'd agree with that. It is pretty easy to leverage classes to do the work of getting everything to one place (convergence), although if you're not careful you'll end up maintaining many similar but slightly different configurations :) Monit is surprisingly powerful as well; don't let its simple syntax fool you. I'm evaluating possibly replacing cfengine with monit (and we make extensive use of cfengine). With some thought I think it may be quite possible.
