On 7/19/2011 7:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > to date, I've done all my administration on a manual 1 at a time basis, > as each system has been pretty much unique. > > its looking like I might need to setup a deployment of a dozen or 2 > basically identical machines, all running pretty much the same sorts of > stuff. I have zero experience with the sorts of management tools folks > use to automate this type of configuration, both initial setup, and > ongoing management (system updates, user application updates, > configuration changes, etc). > > anyone care to suggest any such tools, maybe some real-world pros and > cons? of course, being centos, I prefer FOSS tools. for various > reasons, this environment likely will NOT be virtualized (although I may > emulate a test setup with vmware). > > > webmin is a good free option depending on your admin needs.