Oh where to begin? I work for a company that has not taken our Linux or Unix server configuration management very seriously. We are primarily a Windows shop but long story short upper-management has taken the advice of our Windows Server admins and purchased BigFix which is now IBM Tivoli Endpoint Management (TEM). I have tried for over a month to get one of my SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 patched using TEM when I discovered a bug with their client. It took over 5 hours to apply 30 patches. Performing this task manually, could have been accomplished in under 15 - 30 minutes. I was trying to get buy in to abandon TEM for our SLES servers but was told to make TEM work and just do the patching manual until IBM corrects the client bug. IBM doesn't have an ETA for my APAR which is their bug report, I guess. The price for Puppet Enterprise was reasonable and far less expensive than TEM so I am thinking about getting Puppet installed, non-Enterprise version, to really show upper- management how superior this tool is. I've seen a couple webinar sessions of the new PE 2.0 version and wondered if this can all be accomplished with the community version. Also, anyone have any good step-by-step guides to get Puppet up and running, the community version? I understand that PE 2.0 does all the installation and configurations and provides a very easy to use GUI. I am a new user to Puppet but read many articles and it sounds like the tool to use to manage the SLES servers. I just don't know where to begin. What is the average time for a user to get Puppet community edition up and running?
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