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How Do You Create Config Files Automatically?
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?"
"From my experience" doesn't really qualify when all you have been doing is running that server in the closet. Also, how's the 'burging going? Does it feel good creating pointless links? Why didn't you link to your other hit-words?
Network Administrator & Network Engineer + Network Tech definition: Users with a better password, that only USE what their blatantly technical superiors, coders, create for them to USE (after they read the manual for the tools they USE, & act as if they know something (further maintaining their facade of being a knowledgeable asset)).
("Oh NOOOooo..." - here come the flocks of angry 'wannabes' coming down on this post, to "mod it down", in effete retaliation... too bad the truth IS the truth, eh boys?)
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