Re: Cfengine vs SYSCTL

[Mark . Burgess]

On 22 Sep, Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
> I am evaluating Cfengine to determine if it can feasibly replace SYSCTL. 
> 
> Does Cfengine do the following and how?:
> 
>         1.  Allow software updates/maintenance from a peer node to a peer 
> node
>         2.  Allow client to pull updates/maintenance
>         3.  Allow client to refuse updates or exclude certain filesets/rpm 
> packages from updates

1-3: yes

>         4. Recovery to previous state (rollback feature) in case there is 
> a problem

4: yes, but probably not in the way you imagine. It often requires
traditionalists to rethink their approach.

>         5. Provide reports that show hardware and software inventories on 
> managed nodes

No, not unless you trigger a script to do this. Cfengine is about
shutting up not about coughing up ! :)

M

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