Re: help with cfengine for account management in very large environments

2006-06-13 Thread Wes Rogers
> You can distribute your users with LDAP. Authenticate via PAM and use > pam_listfile to restrict the users for your services. You can manage > these lists (per service) with cfengine. Another way to do this is with LDAP backed NIS netgroups, and /etc/security/access.conf. ~wes _

Re: policy development cycle

2010-01-28 Thread Wes Rogers
We go to DEV and test, peer review and once it has passed it flows through the change control procedure into PROD. Wes 2010/1/28 : > Greetings, > For those of you running CF in a production environment how develop, > qualify and promote your policies?  Do you follow a traditional DEV, QA > and P

Re: Who deletes all files in /var/cfengine/inputs?

2010-02-22 Thread Wes Rogers
We use the purge feature on /inputs. It works fine - as our cfengine infrastructure is HA (of course, there have been a few times where a client or two inputs dir was wiped out). Wes On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Justin Lloyd wrote: > Is there a safe way to use the purge feature? I can see

Re: Who deletes all files in /var/cfengine/inputs?

2010-02-23 Thread Wes Rogers
I agree it probably shouldn't do this, but for us it has only happened a handful of time over the last 3 years on thousands of systems so it wasn't worth debugging further. For us originally, purging /inputs helped combat errant configurations, although now we use other external methods to solve t

multiple domains

2010-03-24 Thread Wes Rogers
Why is the domain getting redefined in cf2? update.conf : control: any:: actionsequence = ( directories files copy shellcommands processes tidy ) workdir = ( /var/cfengine ) any.!domain_p:: domain = ( domain.i) domain_p:: domain = ( domain.p ) cfservd.conf : con

Re: Monitoring Cfengine processes

2010-04-27 Thread Wes Rogers
We just monitor the TCP port of cfengine servers with nagios. Wes On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Justin Lloyd wrote: > This is a follow-on to my original thread about creating a Solaris SMF > service. Since I'm no longer doing that and have decided to let Zenoss > do that, I was curious about

Re: cfengine and eventual consistency (was: Super-scaled cfengine server?)

2010-05-03 Thread Wes Rogers
Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another 'cfservd server' behind my LB VIP and call it a day. Some organizations which have different groups managing multiple sets of configs would have a harder time doing that but.. Wes 2010/5/2 Ted Zlatanov : > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:3

Re: cfengine and eventual consistency

2010-05-03 Thread Wes Rogers
For us, our policy gets refreshed every hour from SVN on all "servers" (or whenever manually). Wes 2010/5/3 Ted Zlatanov : > On Mon, 3 May 2010 15:07:43 -0400 Wes Rogers wrote: > > WR> Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another > WR> 'cfs