On 27/08/2010 19:11, Ski Dawg wrote: >>>> Stefano Sasso wrote: >>>>> 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg<centos at skidawg.org>: >>>>>> After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run >>>>>> across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there >> <snip> >>>> Here's another two cents: first part of last year, I was working with >>>> Spacewalk, the released version of RedHat's satellite. While I was >>>> fighting it tooth and nail, it went from 0.4 to 0.5. With that >>>> experience, >>>> I'd say *don't* bother about it.... > > Thanks to everyone for the replies, and the links to articles for > further research. I will definitely continue reading those. > > At this time, we are not interested in Spacewalk because of the Oracle > db requirement, but I will investigate the other options as well. Have you looked into bcfg2? Of all the options have looked into, it looks like the best for what I want. My experience with Spacewalk is that is not ready yet and that it takes too much effort to set it up. It will probably be worth it but I can't dedicate the time it would take to set it up.