Re: [CentOS] Server test suite

[nate]

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


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Re: [CentOS] Server test suite

[Russell Miller]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net 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


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Re: [CentOS] Server test suite

[nate]

Russell Miller wrote:
 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net 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 21 | 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 21 | 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

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