Re: [CentOS] Server test suite
Russell Miller wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nate wrote: > >> What kinds of things are on the checklist? Perhaps you can use something >> like cfengine or puppet to do this. cfengine essentially runs a checklist >> for me every hour on every system and enforces the rules I have set in >> it(roughly 15,000 lines of configuration). >> >> puppet seems to be the new hot thing though I've not had any time >> or interest to look into it myself cfengine does everything I need. >> > We do use puppet to configure the systems. Problem is that there's an > institutional reluctance to run it in that way - it's done right now > as a "push" configuration. So I would like to find something that can > validate in a read-only way and send alerts when things are a little > off. Not sure if puppet has something similar but in cfengine I could do this: [r...@us-cfe002:~]# cfagent -v -q -n 2>&1 | grep -i need Need: Update of image /var/cfengine/inputs/common/openmq_base.conf from master /nfs/exnas/root/cfengine/configs/common/openmq_base.conf on localhost Need: Update of image /etc/sudoers from master /nfs/exnas/root/cfengine/files/common/redhat/etc/sudoers on localhost Need this: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_openmq wasn't at destination (copying) Need this: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_openmq_sudo wasn't at destination (copying) Need this: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_derby wasn't at destination (copying) Need this: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_derby_sudo wasn't at destination (copying) Need this: /etc/nagios/nrpe.d/check_openmq.cfg wasn't at destination (copying) Need this: /etc/nagios/nrpe.d/check_derby.cfg wasn't at destination (copying) cfagent -v -q -n 2>&1 | grep -i need >/tmp/cfe.check && cat /tmp/cfe.check | mail -s "Alert on `hostname`" u...@host Of course you could make a little bigger script to send something more descriptive in the email. > > While I'm at it, I'd also like something that can keep a database of > all of the packages installed on all of the servers and let me do > queries against it... don't want to write it if there's already > something out there. I think red hat satellite server can do this(I think, it uses an Oracle DB to store data so you could query that), I think they released an open source version of it - http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ I have not used either personally. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Server test suite
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nate wrote: > What kinds of things are on the checklist? Perhaps you can use something > like cfengine or puppet to do this. cfengine essentially runs a checklist > for me every hour on every system and enforces the rules I have set in > it(roughly 15,000 lines of configuration). > > puppet seems to be the new hot thing though I've not had any time > or interest to look into it myself cfengine does everything I need. > We do use puppet to configure the systems. Problem is that there's an institutional reluctance to run it in that way - it's done right now as a "push" configuration. So I would like to find something that can validate in a read-only way and send alerts when things are a little off. While I'm at it, I'd also like something that can keep a database of all of the packages installed on all of the servers and let me do queries against it... don't want to write it if there's already something out there. --Russell > nate > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Server test suite
Russell Miller wrote: > Hi, > > I have an interest in software that will allow me to define test > suites for servers. We have several thousand Linux systems, and after > we build or rebuild each one, we have a checklist. I am trying to > automate this checklist, and ideally have it run against all of our > servers on a regular basis and report inconsistencies. > > Is anyone aware of open-source software that will do this, or do I > need to write my own? What kinds of things are on the checklist? Perhaps you can use something like cfengine or puppet to do this. cfengine essentially runs a checklist for me every hour on every system and enforces the rules I have set in it(roughly 15,000 lines of configuration). puppet seems to be the new hot thing though I've not had any time or interest to look into it myself cfengine does everything I need. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Server test suite
Hi, I have an interest in software that will allow me to define test suites for servers. We have several thousand Linux systems, and after we build or rebuild each one, we have a checklist. I am trying to automate this checklist, and ideally have it run against all of our servers on a regular basis and report inconsistencies. Is anyone aware of open-source software that will do this, or do I need to write my own? --Russell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
