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@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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