> > We are currently redhat 5.6. Ug nothing like SMPE for the mainframe. I guess > this is all going to depend on what applications we run and how many servers > we eventually use. > > Anybody else? What's your process for maintenance?
You will live to regret using anything but RPM to package and deliver service and configuration (we use it for configuration files as well as "official" maintenance, and recommend others do so as well). Yum delivers and installs RPMs, works very well for both RH and SuSE. Not as nice as apt-get for Debian, but that's the stuff RH/SuSE are smoking. Set up a local repository for your "gold" level of maintenance. If the package comes from the distribution vendor, copy it to your local repository so that you know precisely what you're getting until you consciously upgrade the local repository. 'man createrepo' for the gory details. If you use RPM to deliver configuration, set up a separate repository for that so you don't clobber something accidentally. We use the host name as the name of a configuration package, and when you update a server, update the package for that server and then do 'yum update' on that server. That way you know exactly what configuration files are deployed on that server by a simple 'rpm -qa' and you can reference those back to a CMDB entry or however you track configuration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
