What tool will accomplish this task?

2 points by B5geek 11 years ago | 5 comments

I am a sysadmin for a medium sized 'Internet' company. I manage 30+ systems primarily running Debian with a few BSD boxes too.

pwg 11 years ago |

And you also failed to ask any question at all.

stevekemp 11 years ago |

If you're talking about automating the configuration of those hosts - to make sure that all of them have password authentication disabled, all of them are running ntp, etc, etc, then you need to look at:

* Chef

* CFEngine

* Puppet

Or similar. You write "policies" (read "rules") describing the state you want your server to be in, and they do the necssary. Each of these has a master-host and all the managed-hosts talk to it, to arrange the execution of the policies.

If you prefer to run things over SSH instead of having a deamon, then you can look at Ansible, Fabric, or similar. Finally there is my own tool Slaughter which is closer to the first set of tools, but written in Perl and without the need for a deamon.

If you want more specific help please .. ask a specific question.

I could just as well say "A cheap student" for your question..

amarcus 11 years ago |

Check out http://www.scriptrock.com/

a3n 11 years ago |

Vim.

EleventhSun 11 years ago |

Telnet?