managing servers...

[Leonard Isham]

On 5/27/05, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> hi..
> 
> i'm trying to get my hands around the issue of managing servers. in
> particular, i'm trying to get a better understanding of how people manage
> their servers when it comes to installing/upgrading apps.
> 
> i imagine most people simply do the install via rpm/yum/apt-get.. however,
> if you really want to manage multiple servers, you need some way of knowing
> that what you're doing want screw up something else on the server. you also
> need some way of managing the software assets on the different boxes/etc...
> 
> so, assuming you have multiple servers, how do you deal with these issues?
> 
[snip]

You might want to start with yam http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/ 

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Leonard Isham, CISSP 
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