Administering a thousand hosts

Administering a thousand hosts

[Darío Mariani]

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.
  Thank,
                     Darío
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Re: Administering a thousand hosts

[James Turnbull]

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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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Re: Administering a thousand hosts

[Darío Mariani]

  Thanks for the answers, in particular http://www.infrastructures.org
seems to be what I was looking for, after all they claim they are
administering 15,000 hosts.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:46:43 +1100, James Turnbull
<james@lovedthanlost.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net>
> PGP Key at http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0C42DF40
> 
> 
>
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