From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 16:17:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A25A37C12C for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.79.160) by relay2.inwind.it; 22 Jul 2000 01:17:41 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:18:52 GMT Message-ID: <20000722.185200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Administration of multiple machines To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000721115136.00afec00@mail.utexas.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000721115136.00afec00@mail.utexas.edu> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/21/00, 5:55:48 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva =20 wrote regarding Administration of multiple machines: > Our number of FreeBSD servers are growing. We're also getting more=20 and > more machines running Linux. The problem with these two items is that= =20 I'm > being asked to administer more and more of these machines. My=20 question > is: what do people use to administer a number of Unix style machines?= =20 As > much as I would like all new installs to be FreeBSD, and where this=20 might > make the situation a little easier, that is not possible. > I would like to look at open-source tools first (translation: there=20 is no > money to spend on this). One person mentioned something called=20 cfengine, > which I'm starting to look at > . > Any information would be appreciated. > Oscar Dear Oscar Ricardo Silva, you may wish to try webmin, which is found in the Ports Collection as=20 well (/usr/ports/sysutils/webmin); you may also wish to search the=20 archives, in particular the -stable archives, for threads such as=20 "Multiple NFS installworld"; further, on a loosely related note, as=20 you probably know, sysinstall can be scripted; finally, you might want=20 to have a look at Alfred Perlstein's recent work at=20 http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe. Incidentally, the archives are really a mine of information :-)=20 HTH at least a tiny bit, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message