Hi Everyone,
It's not quite a been a year since the last cobbler survey, but things
have been moving exponentially lately, so I figure it's a good time for
another!
As before, please reply off list (not here, to mdehaan(a)redhat.com
instead) and I'll post a anonymized summary of results later.
The goal of this survey is understand how everyone is using things,
which features get used most, and to better be able to plan and
understand where we need to go in the future. It helps me understand
what aspects are most important and what other tools are in use
along with Cobbler.
So, it would be fantastic if absolutely everyone on this list replies --
that would be awesome. Even if you aren't on this list
and are reading through gmane, shoot me an email --- it would be greatly
appreciated.
Results will be shared in a couple of weeks, once I have a chance to
aggregate and summarize them. Again, any specifics you wish
to share about your deployment help me understand you enormously, I
value them, and they won't be shared when I do share the summary.
Thanks!
--Michael
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(1) What is your company/installbase and what do you? Be as
specific or non-specific as you like, we won't share specifics but want
to get an idea of what sectors
things are being used in.
(2) How did you find about Cobbler and how long have you been using
it? (or Just trying it out now, that's good to know also).
(3) How many machines do you have managed by Cobbler?
(4) Do you use the Cobbler web interface?
(5) Do you use the DHCP management feature?
(6) Do you use the DNS management feature?
(7) Do you use the Power management feature?
(8) Do you use "koan --replace-self"?
(9) Do you use "cobbler replicate" ?
(10) Do you use "cobbler buildiso" ?
(11) Do you use cobbler to mirror repositories ("cobbler repo add /
cobbler reposync") ?
(12) Do you use either the built-in config management tool
(--template-files) or the Puppet integration (--mgmt-classes) feature?
(13) Do you use koan to install virtual machines? (If so, what Xen
or KVM or VMware?) If not, what kind of virtualization do you use?
(14) What's the output of the following? You may choose to censor
the system counts if you want, but I still would like a feel as to
whether system records
are well leveraged.
sudo cobbler distro report | wc -l
sudo cobbler profile report | wc -l
sudo cobbler system report | wc -l
sudo cobbler image report | wc -l
sudo cobbler repo report | wc -l
(15) Are you interested in "Cloud" type applications, if so,
which? (EC2? Internally hosted?)
(16) What Open Source or proprietary software do you use to manage
your updates? (yum, Spacewalk/Satellite, etc?)
(17) What Open Source or proprietary software do you use for config
management (in-house solutions, cfengine, puppet, etc?)
(18) What Open Source or proprietary software do you use for monitoring?
(19) Just out of curiosity, how interested are you in "ITIL" at your
organization and how do you see this affecting Cobbler, if at all?
(20) Are the any applications you'd like to see Cobbler integration
better with? If so, how?
(21) What's your number one requested Cobbler feature?
(22) Anything else you'd like to add?
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