Re: System Hardware Tracking
Chris,
I've dreamed of a uniform system for managing and tracking system
configurations. Agreed that configuration management is no problem with
a few systems, but grow the list to 100+, and there's many a potential
management problem brewing.
I currently use some batching scripts to distribute updated code, but
its far from a complete or ideal solution.
The lack of free time has stopped me from building or implementing
anything more complicated, but you may be interested in the following:
The Arusha project: http://ark.sourceforge.net/
Configuration management tools: http://linas.org/linux/cmvc.html
other... http://cbbrowne.com/info/linuxsysconfig.html
I'd be interested in hearing of any other OSS solutions that have client
machines updating to/from a central database with their current hardware
and software configuration.
Cheers,
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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 04:35, Chris G. wrote:
> Well it's finally hit the point where we have a few machines where we have
> no idea what's in them. As an ISP with several hundred machines, it's
> become quite the challenge to remember all of the hardware.
>
> Has anyone made/found/dreamed of a script that can be run on each machine
> to keep track of the hardware in that machine. I'm more than happy to
> write one using perl/mysql, but figured I would throw this out to the list
> and see if someone has found/written something they use.
>
> Oh, and for all of those saying, write it down as your build the machine.
> I wish that would work, we just have too many people dealing with these
> things and when a problem comes up, our concern is to fix the problem
> ASAP, not count our hardware.
>
> Thanks for any help/ideas.
>
> Chris G.
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