[Infrastructures] How do you manage 1000+ systems

[Wesley Craig]

On 12 Jun 2005, at 22:26, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> It probably scales better than what I'm doing currently, which is  
> built
> on top of rsync.

In term of raw performance, radmind usually out-performs rsync,  
because all comparisons take place on the client, between the  
client's filesystem and transcripts provided by the server.  I'm sure  
you've witnessed the load that rsync puts on the server --  
considerable CPU & IO load, just to check that nothing has changed.   
rsync is a very effective tool when the number of clients is small --  
in fact, we use rsync between our radmind servers.  When the number  
of clients is large, the rsync servers quickly bottleneck.

:wes