Re: Administering a thousand hosts

[James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net>]

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Darío Mariani wrote:

>Hello:
>  I'm facing the problem of administering a thousand servers
>distributed all over Latin America. All servers will be similar
>(probably a RedHat based distribution) and will not have critical data
>stored locally.
>  Does anyone know of some tips, documentation or programs for
>administering such monster from a single location?.
>  I've tested cfengine but seems oriented to an heterogenenous network
>and I feel that it cannot help if the number of hosts exceeds 40 or
>50.
>  
>
My recommendation would still be cfengine.  Whilst more difficult to do 
it is still possible to administer a large volume of servers - 
especially if there is no critical local data.  I'd also recommend 
Nagios (www.nagios.org) for systems monitoring - excellent for many 
remote hosts.

Regards

James

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