How Do You Create Config Files Automatically? 113
An anonymous reader writes "When deploying new server/servergroup/cluster to your IT infrastructure, deployment (simplified) consist of following steps: OS installation: to do it over network, boot server must be configured for this new server/servergroup/cluster; configuration/package management: configuration server has to be aware of the newcomer(s); monitoring and alerting: monitoring software must be reconfigured; and performance metrics: a tool for collecting data must be reconfigured. There are many excellent software solutions for those particular jobs, say configuration management (Puppet, Chef, cfengine, bcfg2), monitoring hosts and services (Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS, Zenoss, etc) and performance metrics (Ganglia, etc.). But each of these tools has to be configured independently or at least configuration has to be generated. What tools do you use to achieve this? For example, when you have to deploy a new server, how do you create configs for, let's say, PXE boot server, Puppet, Nagios and Ganglia, at once?"
Emacs or vi... (Score:1, Insightful)
And I type the stuff I need.
(And I start a war on /. )
Re:Here, let me google that for you (Score:3, Insightful)
Eh, has Linux server administration really come into this? Hire knowledgeable admins that can script stuff. Linux is perfect for scripting such configuring and set up. You just need to do those scripts once and you're ready to deploy them on all systems after minimum installation.
If you're a large company, just develop your own solutions, its far better than using someones elses. Just look at google or any other succesfull company.