> Dan Burkland wrote: >> >> What would you recommend for a larger environment then? I'm currently supporting the largest environment I've ever done, and we've got under 200 servers, I think. We've got a small package to handle all the configuration files, a system my manager wrote. > > If I had to choose it would be puppet over spacewalk, though > I may use spacewalk for the kickstart and inventory stuff. Haven't played almost at all with kickstart. > > Note that spacewalk requires oracle(last I checked) so depending > on the size of your environment, there is that added cost. Yes, it does, at least as of 0.5. Now, you can d/l Oracle XE (which is 10g, I think) for free, but it has some hard limits - 1G memory, and I think 4G data. > > Myself I use cfengine, manage around 400 systems with it > currently. Haven't had the time to check puppet out, heard it's > pretty neat, but cfengine does everything I need and I know it > pretty well(using it for the past 5 years) so no real incentive > to learn something new at this point. I've seen a lot of folks saying they used cfengine. <snip> mark