John Hinton wrote: > I haven't disabled Kudzu on most of my systems, but I really do wonder > if there is really any reason to keep it running after the initial > system install. These servers might get a new drive from time to time, > only replacing a drive in the array with a like drive. Maybe some > additional ram. Almost never any other hardware changes... I'm fairly > confident that these changes are all handled entirely by the system's > bios, either machine or raid interface bios. I've been disabling kudzu on all of my systems immediately after kickstart(along with a slew of other services) for years now. New ram is picked up automatically(unless your on 32-bit and need to upgrade to a PAE kernel or something). I don't change the local disk count but many systems are constantly getting/removing disks from the SAN, (primarily software iSCSI), no kudzu needed. When I manipulate FC connected systems I just use the /proc/scsi/scsi interface, it's fairly simple. Also most of my servers have dual network ports, and most are on only one network so I bond the interfaces together(active/failover) so either/or/both NICs can be plugged in and it'll work fine. Running about 90 RHEL/CentOS systems at my current place, had around 350 at my last job. nate