Hey; >>We use both as they solve different problems.
Thank you very much for responding! All of the searching I've been doing has slowly lead me to that same conclusion, but I don't have any solid facts or sites to back it up. My client also has a lot of oracle stuff. I'm sure they could start using rhel w/o issue, but it's almost exclusively OEL at this point. They say they have the license for OEM 12c; but, so far, I've not been able to confirm the license for the CM pack - which, if I'm reading it right, is *not* cheap and does not come with the base OEM. I've read about the mcollective but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Good to know that there's a performance issue running both of puppet and OEM simultaneously. As for the environment: as I mentioned, it's mostly OEL but they do have a smattering of rhel ver 4 and 5. Most of the systems are now vmware guests; but, there are a few physicals - mostly the rhel4 systems, still running. >>What are you trying to solve? That, right there, is my core problem. I haven't yet been able to hammer that down; but, I believe that the other admin (the one pushing for OEM) and I are trying to solve different problems. She's looking for something that'll automate patching + some other nebulous things on which I haven't gotten a clear answer. I'm looking for a tool through which I can nail down system configurations - ensuring that they're kept consistent across all environments - and help automate configuration change distributions. I'm a UNIX admin but also a security guy at heart (CISSP/CISA). So, short version: I need to figure out what my client's trying to solve (not as easy an investigation as one would hope) and, from there, I can figure out whether or not OEM will be sufficient. At your convenience, any chance you could expand on the concept that they solve different problems? Thanks again, very much, for your response. It's nice getting at least a partial confirmation that what I was suspecting is accurate. Doug O"Leary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
