On 02/25/2013 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca wrote:
This is where you need something like Katello or Spacewalk. These are management systems which look after managing your infrastructure in such a way that you can view what servers are out of compliance and what patches are waiting to be applied.
I'm currently evaluating Katello as a long term solution to our Red Hat GNU/Linux management. I'd hazard to guess that you'll probably want to do the same too.
These seem like serious overkill for a small number of servers, especially ones where you don't run a lot of local or 3rd party apps and thus should never have a reason to need anything but moderately frequent 'yum -y update' runs. What kind of time and resources does it take to understand, set up, and manage one of these beasts?
Let's see. I have 4 productions servers: DNS, web, mail, and samba; with samba locked up on a private net. Only DNS is current, the rest are work in progress. I just built my test DNS, which will make the rest easier. So MAYBE 8 boxes, with only 4 up 24/7. Not something to throw a server management system at. I do have a real job which I have to work on this afternoon and tonight.