[Infrastructures] infrastructure

[Wesley Craig]

I suspect that you're referring to:

     http://radmind.org

radmin is something else.  radmind more or less does all of the stuff  
below.  It's a small & simple suite of tools, leveraging a simple  
idea (tripwire) to do a lot of work (integrity, change management,  
rollback, install, upgrade, etc).

:wes

On 28 Sep 2005, at 12:04, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Mohammed Arafa said on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:24:19PM +0200:
>> i need something that is open source/free that can:
>> install OS (and/or 3rd party programs like oracle) automatically
>> install without media (network based)
>> pull update/upgrade automatically or with minimal sysadmin  
>> intervention
>
> I use systemimager + cvsup + tiny bit of shell for this, but maybe
> radmin would do it better?
>
>> monitor changes that i made to the system
>
> radmin or samhain?
>
>> monitor the integrity of my systems
>
> "integrity".  I assume you mean security stuff, so maybe samhain?
>
>> rollback changes
>
> I use systemimager for this (make a backup of the image, try it, if it
> doesn't work, go back to the old image).
>
>> have its own update system
>
>> your ideas of turning any server into a baseline server at any  
>> point in time
>> is amazing but i was wondering how then do u carry out change  
>> management?
>> assuming i destroy ntpd.conf how do i change it back? since u have  
>> gotten
>> rid of the gold server?