Submitted by The Debian administration website has a nice introduction to using CFEngine for managing a whole LAN in three parts. The first part introduces the engine, the second part explains what you can do using CFEngine, and the final part describes how to setup a client-server setup to allow a whole LAN to be managed centrally.
But you’re working too hard, there is a better way to take charge of your network management automation.
http://antdepo.org/
> there is a better way to take charge of
s/there is a/there will be “Release coming Aug” a/
Rumor is that the AntDepo software will be released this coming week.
From site:
” AntDepo acts as a control harness for managing distributed application components. It provides a framework to create executable modular control workflows to manage the release of application deployments, both individually, and as coherent integrated systems. Features of the harness include:
* remote execution: execute process across machines and enables host abstraction
* command dispatch: each step of the process is a named command that can be logically addressed
* template expansion: expands configuration and/or script templates using operational data
* built on Ant: plug in existing ant build files as named commands. AntDepo provides many useful tasks to create sophisticated control harnesses
As an automation and control framework, AntDepo provides the following benefits:
* Reduces the number of management scripts by consolidating them into reusable libraries.
* Reduces complexity of scripts by parameterizing them with operational data
* Simplifies how management actions are tied together to implement multi-step procedures.
AntDepo is opensource and grew out of work from the ControlTier Software automation solutions”
Sounds nice, as I am a big ant fan.