From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 09:38:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65560106564A for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ahmed@aossama.net) Received: from smtp.aossama.net (smtp.master-zone.net [196.218.210.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE018FC0A for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [192.168.0.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ahmed) by smtp.aossama.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4A7863EA0 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:21:25 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <4CC54C23.6040505@aossama.net> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:21:39 +0200 From: Ahmed Ossama User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <4CC48CE0.4060509@master-zone.net> In-Reply-To: <4CC48CE0.4060509@master-zone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Administrating more than 10 servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:38:30 -0000 Thanks guys, I have collected a lot of info, I guess I have to arrange them into some procedures and steps. I will be using nagios and puppet, and certainly a version control system (most probably subversion). Also I am going export a site wide directory of the common files via NFS. And follow the UNIX infrastructure management from scratch. Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I > was wonder what is the best way to > administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch these servers such that > all work like a clockwise with each other with the exact same updates? > > I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, > but I want to manage the servers more efficiently. > > Any advice/guide is much appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >