managing servers...

[Oded Maimon]

bruce wrote:

>hi..
>
>i'm trying to get my hands around the issue of managing servers. in
>particular, i'm trying to get a better understanding of how people manage
>their servers when it comes to installing/upgrading apps.
>
>i imagine most people simply do the install via rpm/yum/apt-get.. however,
>if you really want to manage multiple servers, you need some way of knowing
>that what you're doing want screw up something else on the server. you also
>need some way of managing the software assets on the different boxes/etc...
>
>so, assuming you have multiple servers, how do you deal with these issues?
>
>thanks
>
>-bruce
>bedouglas at earthlink.net
>
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Check for this:
http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/ - you can use this to massive install 
and manage you servers packages (and much more)
http://www.xcat.org/ - this will also do the job, check this one if you 
have IBM servers (good for all other servers also)