Jan Muhammad wrote: > Hi Group, > > I wonder either there's any way to deploy patches or packages > (application or OS) to several nodes at once. Or may be the case that > while deploying desired patches there are any running jobs on target > nodes, then how Smartfrog can help?
hi, sorry I havent replied earlier -been busy. Dont be afraid to remind me to do things, everyone else does. Are you talking about OS patches, that get pushed out as RPMs or the like? We've generally steered a bit clear of working at that level, primarily because Java itself is so brittle in this world; you need a fairly functional system before you start playing with Java, so its weak at maintaining itself. That said, -we have a really good student working with us on more low-level stuff -I need to do more with remote RPM/deb install onto VMs, or VM filesystems mounted and chrooted, where you need to manipulate the filesystem before bringing up a virtual machine. There is some stuff in the components/rpmtools code for that. but not enough, and I'm not convinced its fith > Although I have been exploring Puppet and Cfengine for this > also. Can some one refer me to basic documents/manuals explaining > internal working mechanism for SmartFrog. As the research papers though > useful but not that much detailed. Have you had a look at all our slides? I think this one is a reasonable intro http://people.apache.org/~stevel/slides/oscon.pdf -steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Smartfrog-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartfrog-users
