Hi, Reference: > From: Ahmed Ossama <ah...@master-zone.net> > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:45:36 +0200 > Message-id: <4cc48ce0.4060...@master-zone.net>
Ahmed Ossama wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lately I was put in charge to administrate 12 FreeBSD servers, and I was > wonder what is the best way to > administrate/monitor/follow-up/update/patch these servers such that all > work like a clockwise with each other with the exact same updates? > > I wrote few scripts that notifies me with system failure and updates, > but I want to manage the servers more efficiently. > > Any advice/guide is much appreciated. Some of my hardware hosts answer differently to 'uname -m', also I don't want to have the same 'uname -r' on all hosts, so What I do: Have a site wide directory of common stuff, mastered on one host, & each host has symbolic links into its _local_ copy of /site for stuff that's common, & each host has it own /etc/ & usr/local/etc files for the rest. No central /site on just one host via eg amd+nfs, as that would be a single point of failure/ overload. To replicate /site to all hosts I use rdist6 , (you might prefer eg rsync) both in /usr/ports/net/ It's what suits me, but I'm not claiming it's best for others :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 spam formats. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
