From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dar=EDo_Mariani?= Subject: Re: Administering a thousand hosts Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:38:46 -0300 Message-ID: <84bd26ef0411170438749f4644@mail.gmail.com> References: <84bd26ef041116070571d84f2e@mail.gmail.com> <419B2C13.8050603@lovedthanlost.net> Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dar=EDo_Mariani?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <419B2C13.8050603@lovedthanlost.net> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 wrote: > Dar=EDo Mariani wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > >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 da= ta > >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 netwo= rk > >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. >=20 > Regards >=20 > James >=20 > -- > James Turnbull > PGP Key at http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x0C= 42DF40 >=20 >=20 > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html