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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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>On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:34:26PM +0200 or thereabouts, Rene Zbinden wrote: |
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>>Does someone have other recources, tips&tricks etc... |
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>cfengine, cfengine and cfengine. |
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>http://www.cfengine.org |
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>--kurt |
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Kurt, |
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I have cfengine in my spot of cool-things-to-take-a-look-at, but I |
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haven't had time till now. You seem to know about it, so, I would like |
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to make a few questions, if you don't mind to answer, and have the time |
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to do it. |
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From my limited understanding, cfengine provides a way to centrally |
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manage hosts with common configuration, am I right? Do you have the |
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possibility of defining "classes" of hosts? I mean, let's say I have a |
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mail server, several web servers, desktop machines.... I would like to |
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have common configurations for all of them, is this possible? |
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Another question... let's say I have to install a lot of machines, I |
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understand that I just would install all the required packages, |
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configure cfengine, and then all the machines would automatically |
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configure themselves using my centrally stored configuration, am I |
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right? Can you automate the process of package installation, so maybe |
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you could have a "desktop profile/class", "mail server profile/class", |
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etc... that stores packages and their configurations? |
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Thanks in advance, best regards |
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Jose |
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