<p dir="ltr">+1 for spacewalk for rhel-alike systems. It uses puppet under the hood for configuration management.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And yes, the web GUI feels like walking through syrup in January and the initial repo load-in is even slower. But it doesn't change with any number of systems under control. It supports bare metal provisioning up through roll backs of packages and configs. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I've not used it in a while but I suspect it will now support a roll out of freeipa registered systems in a fully controlled network (I refuse to use the term "domain". Maybe "fiefdom" is better :-)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 14, 2014 9:31 AM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you are using RHEL, then definitely look into Red Hat's "Satellite Server". We are primarily a SUSE shop, with a few RHEL systems, so we use SUSE Manager, which is their re-roll of that same product. You don't have to do any programming, and minimal scripting is required. You can point-and-click patch your systems from one web console, etc...<br>
I manage almost 300 systems with SUSE's version of it (based on the Spacewalk upstream) and couldn't be happier.<br>
There are a few downsides:<br>
1. It is slow and bloated. I have allocated 32GB of RAM and 12 vCPUs, and there is still a noticeable lag between operations with the gui. The good news is that the lag is not significantly different between a few systems and a few hundred being managed.<br>
2. It does take some tweaking of settings to get it initially working well.<br>
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Just my $0.02 worth.<br>
Allen B.<br>
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Allen Beddingfield<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
The University of Alabama<br>
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Our Linux server environment has grown from 10 RHEL servers to over 150 RHEL systems in a few short months. I need an easy way to confirm that they all have the same settings (sshd, time zone, routes, selinux, etc…) for security purposes. At the moment I have a simple bash script (lots of sed and awk!) that prepares a server for use but I would like something that would be easier to manage and to be able to turn over to someone else to manage eventually.<br>
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Any suggestions?<br>
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