On 12-Nov-2008, at 14:09 , dale sykora wrote:
Hello, Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I mean running update scripts and other software on various Linuxclients. For instance, I'd like to be able to tell clients to update a perl module with cpan or yum update some_rpm_package or download, untar,compile, install some in house software.
You could probably wedge something like that into Nagios, but there is software out there better suited to the task: configuration management and change management software (particularly the former). See cfengine, bcfg2, puppet, to name only three. I was also recently referred to an interesting paper which makes references to using configuration management software to manage other (client) organizations' systems, here <ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/papers/directing-change-with-bcfg2.pdf >.
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