Anyone looked at TemplateTree II? It's a cfengine configuration
preprocessor from Tobias Oetiker (the fellow who created RRDTool). It
was discussed at LISA '01 by the author:
Paper:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/tech/full_papers/oetiker/oetiker.pdf
Home:
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/isgtc/index.cgi?page=module_pod;module=tetre2;pod=docs/overview.pod
There is also the System Configuration booklet from SAGE (Booklet #14)
for a discussion, as well as a PDF from Gridweaver examining the various
possibilities:
http://www.gridweaver.org/WP1/report1.pdf
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David Douthitt
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