[Infrastructures] How do you manage 1000+ systems

[Wesley Craig]

On 12 Jun 2005, at 15:44, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Don't we all have our own homebrew system for doing the rest that  
> works
> for me but unfortunately is not in a good state to share?  I wonder if
> we shouldn't just start sharing anyway...

If we're sharing, please check out:

     http://radmind.org/

It doesn't speak to stuff like LDAP & Kerberos (which I recommend in  
concert, each being good for part of the task), but rather to the  
management of largish infrastructures.  Radmind operates as a  
combination tripwire/file management system.  The same tool that  
detects that the filesystem has changed can save the change and apply  
it to other machines in your system.  We're currently managing around  
500 Linux & Solaris servers, and a colleague here uses it to manage  
1000+ Mac OS X work stations.  It's in active development and is  
widely used to academic circles.

:wes