Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:18:52 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administration of multiple machines Message-ID: <20000722.185200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000721115136.00afec00@mail.utexas.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000721115136.00afec00@mail.utexas.edu>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/21/00, 5:55:48 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> wrote regarding Administration of multiple machines: > Our number of FreeBSD servers are growing. We're also getting more and > more machines running Linux. The problem with these two items is that I'm > being asked to administer more and more of these machines. My question > is: what do people use to administer a number of Unix style machines? As > much as I would like all new installs to be FreeBSD, and where this might > make the situation a little easier, that is not possible. > I would like to look at open-source tools first (translation: there is no > money to spend on this). One person mentioned something called cfengine, > which I'm starting to look at > <http://www.gnu.org/software/cfengine/cfengine.html>. > Any information would be appreciated. > Oscar Dear Oscar Ricardo Silva, you may wish to try webmin, which is found in the Ports Collection as well (/usr/ports/sysutils/webmin); you may also wish to search the archives, in particular the -stable archives, for threads such as "Multiple NFS installworld"; further, on a loosely related note, as you probably know, sysinstall can be scripted; finally, you might want to have a look at Alfred Perlstein's recent work at http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe. Incidentally, the archives are really a mine of information :-) HTH at least a tiny bit, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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