Deploying Red Hat Workstations

[Harry Hoffman]

Have you looked at cfengine at all?

Quoting Chris Purcell <redhat at cjp.us>:

*> We're in the process of deploying about 200 Fedora (or RHEL) workstations
*> out to our remote offices scattered across the US.  I need a way that I
*> can easily make changes to the workstations all at once.  I've been
*> thinking of a hack that I would write (in Perl) that would go something
*> like this...
*> 
*> 1) each workstation would execute a cron job daily that would download a
*> script from our central server each day
*> 2) that script would be executed by another cron job a few minutes later.
*>  This script will contain any changes that I need to make.   If there
*> aren't any updates for the day, then the script will be blank that day.
*> 
*> Will this work?  There has to be something better than this out there.
*> What do you guys do in this situation?   For example, we've deployed about
*> 25 workstations out so far, but now I need to change this Perl script on
*> each one of the machines.  What is the easiest way to push this script out
*> besides SCP'ing it to each one individually.
*> 
*> Thanks,
*> Chris
*> 
*> 
*> 
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