NANOG Digest, Vol 25, Issue 90

Sat Feb 20 22:07:38 UTC 2010

Actually thanks, I just realized that after I hit send...

It's for CentOS

Mehmet

On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:47 PM, nanog-request at nanog.org wrote:

> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:35:41 -0500
> From: Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: centeralized server management solutions
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Message-ID: <20100220213541.GB5426 at angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
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> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
>> Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access
>> Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards
>> Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution.
>> Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
> 
> You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like 
> systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3].  
> PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4].  Foreman [5] 
> is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
> 
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/pt-install-advanced-deployment.html
> 
> [2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
> 
> [3] http://www.bacula.org/en/
> 
> [4] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
> 
> [5] http://theforeman.org/