On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:17 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote:
> [...] So using chef/puppet/salt/ansible/blueprint all fall down on the > legacy support. But maybe that's just me being too perfectionist > here. But I do want to automate even these Sparc systems, esp the > standalone Oracle servers which need accounts sync'd between them, > though not all accounts on all systems. > > A pain. And the one which cfengine with it's C base seems the best > way to solve... > > So please keep up this discussion, and please keep posting solutions, > pointers and maybe even recipes for some of this would be solved. > In the off chance these are remotely helpful, back in 2006 when Systems Administrator Magazine still existed I wrote two articles about cfengine and got permission to host an archival copy: http://www.johnborwick.com/writing/cfengine.html ("Cfengine introduction") http://www.johnborwick.com/writing/system-automation.html ("Cradle-to-Grave System Automation with PXE, Kickstart, and cfengine") These articles (fairly obviously) target cfengine 2. HTH, John B. -- John Borwick University Libraries IT Services Director Virginia Tech
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