I was going to mention HPs Server Automation tool (nee Opsware SAS) - I've worked with it for >3 years, and it's awesome!<br><br>Of course, it's also expensive and has pretty heavy system requirements, but it's a great tool, and does *exactly* what you're describing.<br>
<br>-WMM<br><br><font size="1">disclaimer - I worked *for* Opsware and then HP in both Support and Professional Services; also worked for a customer for 6 months; am back now to HPSA consulting with an HP partner</font><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Dylan Northrup <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docx@io.com">docx@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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A commercial product for doing what you want to do is Opsware. I'm sure you<br>
could add some hooks into cfengine, puppet, et. al to do updates to a<br>
central DB when they do their machine probes. I haven't gone through the<br>
exercise, but it should be mostly straightforward (based on my experience<br>
with the products).<br>
<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Warren Myers<br><a href="http://warrenmyers.com">http://warrenmyers.com</a><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers">http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers</a><br>