Thanks for the answers, in particular http://www.infrastructures.org seems to be what I was looking for, after all they claim they are administering 15,000 hosts. On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:46:43 +1100, James Turnbull <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Darío Mariani wrote: > > > > >Hello: > > I'm facing the problem of administering a thousand servers > >distributed all over Latin America. All servers will be similar > >(probably a RedHat based distribution) and will not have critical data > >stored locally. > > Does anyone know of some tips, documentation or programs for > >administering such monster from a single location?. > > I've tested cfengine but seems oriented to an heterogenenous network > >and I feel that it cannot help if the number of hosts exceeds 40 or > >50. > > > > > My recommendation would still be cfengine. Whilst more difficult to do > it is still possible to administer a large volume of servers - > especially if there is no critical local data. I'd also recommend > Nagios (www.nagios.org) for systems monitoring - excellent for many > remote hosts. > > Regards > > James > > -- > James Turnbull <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > PGP Key at http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0C42DF40 > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
