Hi, Some of you know me - I've spoken at a number of events LOPSA folks go to - LISA, LFNW, OSCON, LCA, and others. For those of you who don't know me, I founded the Linux-HA project (aka Heartbeat, aka Pacemaker). I've been a LOPSA member for several years.
I'm looking for people to do trials of the open source software described below...* Please reply to me off-list if you're interested. I don't want to add my noise to the list.* A few years ago, I started a project to provide open source system management capabilities, and the time has come to get more trials going. http://AssimilationSystems.com/ What capabilities you ask? Why thank you for asking! ;-)<http://AssimilationSystems.com/> We do discovery of real or virtual infrastructure and then do things with it. These things cover these areas: - keeping a detailed configuration management database continually up to date - monitoring servers and services - ensuring continuous hardening of servers, including security patch management - creating and keeping up to date a map of network connections and properties Here's what's cool about it: - it scales incredibly well - managing 100K servers is the right range for a single system - it requires near-zero manual configuration - it is very, very light on the network - it cannot set off network security alarms - all communication is encrypted with ECC public key encryption - agents are very lightweight (written in C & shell scripts) - because of graph database, you can ask "what depends directly or indirectly on this server?" and related things For these trials, I'm looking for forward-looking shops with a number of Linux systems. The central management system should be a modern Linux version. Any recent Ubuntu, CentOS7 or similar - or any Linux if you're willing to build packages. I'm looking into providing Debian packages as well. What you need to be willing to do: - provide a real or virtual machine to run the central server on - install and use the system - provide feedback - work to make your trial a success If you do this, I agree to: - be available for email, IRC, and phone discussions - work to make your trial a success - turn around bug fixes rapidly - document confusing things - listen carefully to what you have to say - send project stickers and T-shirts to you or a small trial team (they are *way* cool and geeky). -- Alan Robertson / CTO [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>/ +1 303.947.7999 Assimilation Systems Limited http://AssimilationSystems.com Twitter <https://twitter.com/ossalanr> Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanr> skype <https://htmlsig.com/skype?username=alanr_unix.sh>
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