Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-27 Thread Darren Spruell
> On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like > some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos. http://tentakel.biskalar.de/ http://www.garbled.net/clusterit.html http://fermitools.

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-27 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like >> some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos. > > Just my

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like > some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos. Just my idea (never had more than 3 boxes at once): On my main box, I'd have a separat

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-27 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:30:34PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like > > some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos. > > The

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-14 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:30:34PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like > > some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos. > > The multixterm

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-14 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like > some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos. The multixterm program that comes with expect is useful for ssh'ing to lots of mac

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-14 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:45:06PM +1100, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > 1) Create images or post install diffs so that if I need to add a > blade to expand, I put it in, connect via the console, install via > PXE and then download the diff - I know you can do this wth the > post install scrips in OpenBSD

Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-14 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
Hello all, I've been googling around for some answers and I thought I would ask the list as well. In the past I have used different compters for different tasks. I would have many different installs of OpenBSD on many different platforms. However, i am moving some stuff into a data center and a