You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
Any options that also handle Windows Server? -- Matt On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
Sorry for top post, posting from bb.
Spacewalk is the open source upstream of redhat satellite. Can be used for installation/provisioning and config management. Ties in well with puppet and func.
On 2/20/10, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each will have internet access Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when connecting to the centralized solution. Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper.
You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gui...
[2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
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