Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-09-05 Thread James Nguyen
I'm managing two data centers and some instances on rackspace cloud servers. Currently running Cobbler+Puppet+Mcollective. So far it's been great for a team of one, myself. At the moment I'm looking into either using Aeolus or Openstack to bridge the gap of my data centers and the public cloud

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-09-05 Thread Trey Dockendorf
On Sep 5, 2011 2:47 AM, James Nguyen ja...@callfire.com wrote: I'm managing two data centers and some instances on rackspace cloud servers. Currently running Cobbler+Puppet+Mcollective. So far it's been great for a team of one, myself. At the moment I'm looking into either using Aeolus or

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread RC
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: You get one master xterm, a bunch of slave xterms, and you can either type in the master to affect all nodes or selectively type in the slaves. Yes, but I don't want a bunch of XTerms. I can slide my phone open, ssh in and

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Two and a quarter years ago, I got stuck with Spacewalk where I had a short-term contract, and it was a horror. (Note that while I was working on it, it went from 0.4 to 0.5) As Iain said, it requires Oracle, and I found I had to add an addition

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Patrick Lists wrote: On 07/20/2011 06:11 PM, Iain Morris wrote: Spacewalk is great, but be prepared for some significant configuration time and energy. Also, it requires Oracle (postgres is in progress last I checked). From what I read the PostgreSQL support is

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/19/11 6:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:02:42 PM -0700 RC cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: It should be considered as complementing the automated config management tools like cfengine et al, not as a replacement for them (they're doing

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread Marian Marinov
On Thursday 21 July 2011 18:36:17 Devin Reade wrote: --On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:02:42 PM -0700 RC cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: It should be considered as complementing the automated config management tools like cfengine

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Iain Morris
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss alternative for

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Devin Reade
--On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 08:45:54 PM -0700 cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 19, 2011 6:48 PM, Jay Leafey jay.lea...@mindless.com wrote: I usually use SSH keys in conjunction with ClusterSSH In the same vein, I instead recomend pdsh. Another variant that has been around a long time is

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread m . roth
Iain Morris wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/7/20 m.r...@5-cent.us: Iain Morris wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/20/2011 06:11 PM, Iain Morris wrote: Spacewalk is great, but be prepared for some significant configuration time and energy. Also, it requires Oracle (postgres is in progress last I checked). From what I read the PostgreSQL support is functional for regular usage and has been

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/20/11 10:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Oracle named user license is very cheap .. but if you read the license, every single node that generates data is considered a 'user', even if it goes through a webservice or other form of 'data concentrator' and doesn't directly connect to SQL. --

[CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread John R Pierce
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

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread William Warren
On 7/19/2011 7:43 PM, John R Pierce 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

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:43 AM, John R Pierce pie...@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

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:43 PM, John R Pierce pie...@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

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss alternative for it. There is http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ Or check out: http://pulpproject.org/ https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/ http://theforeman.org/ (or look at

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread David Lemcoe
Spacewalk is the free alternative to Satellite, and is pretty dang awesome if you ask me. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Brady
On 20/07/11 10:30 AM, David Lemcoe wrote: Spacewalk is the free alternative to Satellite, and is pretty dang awesome if you ask me. +1 for spacewalk. I use it in combination with kickstarts (have not fiddled with the cobbler/PXE provisioning interface yet) to rollout identical deployments for

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss alternative for it. There is http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ They have it? Awesome! Thanks for

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/19/11 6:43 PM, John R Pierce 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

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread Jay Leafey
I usually use SSH keys in conjunction with ClusterSSH (http://clusterssh.sourceforge.net), I have been using the 3.27 version with good results. It makes managing batches of servers a bit easier, allowing the execution of the same command across multiple systems at the same time. -- Jay

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-19 Thread cooleyr
On Jul 19, 2011 6:48 PM, Jay Leafey jay.lea...@mindless.com wrote: I usually use SSH keys in conjunction with ClusterSSH ( http://clusterssh.sourceforge.net), I have been using the 3.27 version with good results. It makes managing batches of servers a bit easier, allowing the execution of the