I have an idea for a project, and I'm trying to see if anyone has started on a similar project before I do. The project I have in mind is to bring the monitoring and scheduling capabilities of the Red Hat Network to YUM (or APT). This will make it easier for administrators who use YUM to manage large installations. If you are not familiar with this aspect of RHN I'll describe the functionality I'd want to have in this application. Remote Monitoring: Systems are registered with the management server and the management server learns what packages are installed on the system. The management server also queries a YUM repository, and then is able to report on which systems are out of date. Scheduling Updates: From the web interface you will be able to schedule package updates for any of the servers. The clients will have a check-in daemon which will periodically poll the management server, if a task has been scheduled, the client will execute the command. Server Groups: Assign identical servers to groups so the whole group is updated together. Has anyone here heard of a project trying to accomplish the same goals? I've asked this question in the APT-RPM community a little over a year ago and nobody had any knowledge of such a project. -Jeff Bearer ------------------------------- -- Even though this E-Mail has been scanned and found clean of -- known viruses, OPM can not guarantee this message is virus free. ------------------------------- -- This message was automatically generated. -------------------------------do -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20031107/69be7146/attachment-0001.htm
