Re: [CentOS] redhat spacewalk

nate wrote:

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operations that people actually have to do to mange data centers in one (preferably free) tool?

You seen http://www.hyperic.com/products/enterprise-systems-monitoring.html

yet? Never used it myself, I think they are owned by VMware now.

They have an open source version but don't see the deployment portion in that.

I did look at it some time ago but didn't like the requirement of a JVM for the client agent compared to the smaller ocsinventory agent executable. Current server capabilities probably make it a lot less important today but it still seems like a lot of overhead. On the other hand, that is one of the systems that has hooks to integrate with OpenNMS.