[CentOS] Recommended Configuration Control Software?
Jeremiah Heller
jeremiah at itmustbe.com
Mon Oct 27 23:16:58 UTC 2008
On 27 Oct 2008, at 15:56, Jeremiah Heller wrote:
> On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Sean Carolan wrote:
>
>> We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to
>> have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they
>> were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers that are
>> in use 24x7, we do not have the luxury of simply doing a clean build,
>> taking md5sums of each file, and then doing fresh installations. I
>> need a system that can take in-place snapshots of each server's
>> configuration files, store them in some kind of database or text
>> file,
>> and notify me whenever something changes.
>>
>> I've used tripwire in the past - do you have any other
>> recommendations
>> for this type of project?
> you might want to look at dconf, from http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/
> . probably not hard to script something to notify you when a new
> snapshot is taken.
[snip]...
>
> You can configure dconf to run from cron on an hourly, daily, weekly
> or monthly basis and, in case of changes, have it send out a mail.
probably easier to read what I posted and see email notification is a
configurable option :P
> Dconf allows you to go back in time, compare older snapshots,
> rollback changes or even compare systems with basic text-oriented
> tools.
> =====
Jeremiah
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