On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Geoff Galitz <geoff at galitz.org> wrote: [knip] >> Any pointers to good automated solutions? > > Do you use cfengine or puppet in your environment? If you install the > base packages via post installation scripts, you can use cfengine to > layer on specific host identities (hostname, IP, configuration, > packages, etc.). With either of these tools you can import > configurations from a running host and then layer them back to a new > host. There is some considerable setup to get it to that point, but > lots of scripts available online so much of the work is done. +1 on cfengine. (Kikckstart|Jumpstart|Fai) + cfengine = admin nirvana. This also applies to puppet/chef/whatever. Just use management software. -- natxo