Sorry for top post, posting from bb. Spacewalk is the open source upstream of redhat satellite. Can be used for installation/provisioning and config management. Ties in well with puppet and func.
On 2/20/10, Chuck Anderson <c...@wpi.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:29:38PM -0600, Mehmet Akcin wrote: >> Centralized solution and server wont be on the same network , but each >> will have internet access >> Drac cards come with Compact Flash cards >> Bandwidth may not be quite fast and latency might be higher when >> connecting to the centralized solution. >> Monitoring can be apart from the server maintenance solution as I already >> primarily use cacti/nagios/IMapper. > > You didn't specify what OS'es you deploy, but for Linux/Red Hat-like > systems: PXE boot, Kickstart [1], Puppet [2], Bacula [3]. > PXE/Kickstart/Puppet can be managed with Cobbler [4]. Foreman [5] > is an alternative for managing Puppet hosts. > > [1] > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/pt-install-advanced-deployment.html > > [2] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/ > > [3] http://www.bacula.org/en/ > > [4] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ > > [5] http://theforeman.org/ > > -- Brandon Galbraith Mobile: 630.400.6992 FNAL: 630.840.2141