"Michael D. Parker" <mich...@unixwizard.com> writes:
> I have just started a gig and have inherited a large collection of
> heterogeneous UNIX systems of the following flavors all running: hpux
> (11.11, 11.31), aix, mpras, sun solaris (sun 8 9 10), redhat (as3, as4, as5)
> , and suse (9 10 11). What would be the ideal from management's point of
> view is to have all of these systems configuration controlled and managed
> from hopefully one program. It is understood that each of these operating
> systems will have different base configurations. The items to be managed
> include patches, packages, and configuration files.
>
> I have just started looking at cfengine, and looking at some type of
> do-it-yourself hybrid using subversion.
>
> Management would prefer to use a commercial package if possible and was
> wondering if you all had any ideas of this type of application or vendors?
I would strongly suggest puppet, if you are looking at the open source
options, is a vastly better choice than either of the two you listed.
(...and, yes, I /do/ still have the scars from using both in production.)
You can also purchase commercial support for puppet, although it doesn't have
the standard "giant company" attached that your management probably want.
Regards,
Daniel
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