Re: Administering a thousand hosts

[Darío Mariani]

Thanks for the answer.
How did you handle the distribution of cfengine public keys? When I
run cfrun there is a key interchange that it asks me to accept.

                Darío

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:37:16 -0500, Yang, Chi-Tai
<chi-tai.yang@rbccm.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you worried too much.
> We used to use ssh/cfgengine to manage 800+ hosts, with 20% Linux, 80% 
> Solairs, worked like a charm.
> We used to worry about situation where power outage happened and 600+ hosts 
> boot up at the same time, or  traffic generated, blah, blah, blah.
> 
> No problem, I assure you.
> 
> What you need to a golden host that can ssh into these machines without 
> password, carefully craft/categorize your host types, then off you go with 
> your worries.
> 
> If cfengine can help manage heterogenenous systems, what make you think it 
> can not manage homogenenous systems?
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Darío Mariani
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Administering a thousand hosts
> 
> Hello:
>   I'm facing the problem of administering a thousand servers
> distributed all over Latin America. All servers will be similar
> (probably a RedHat based distribution) and will not have critical data
> stored locally.
>   Does anyone know of some tips, documentation or programs for
> administering such monster from a single location?.
>   I've tested cfengine but seems oriented to an heterogenenous network
> and I feel that it cannot help if the number of hosts exceeds 40 or
> 50.
>   Thank,
>                      Darío