On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:43 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> 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). Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss alternative for it.