Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> >> Are you using puppet to manage the centos servers? We're looking at it >> for the day job. Tired of commercial tools that over promise and under >> deliver....make that promise and never deliver. > > We are starting to use puppet within the centos setup. > > I have been using puppet for over two years in various setups at > $DayJob, one of which is over 1200 machines. > > There is a very active community around puppet at the moment, and is the > only real sysadmin system management post-install tool worth using on > Linux right now ( imho ). Are there any such tools that work cross-platform with windows? I've been poking around in ocsinventory (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/) which can deploy and execute things but it seems to be in between versions right now. > The chain of (centos::cobbler->puppet->func) makes quite a good > combination. Drbl/clonezilla is a cross platform system image clone/kickstart mechanism. > of-course, a conversation for the puppet lists :D Unless you are looking for cross-platform tools. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com