Enterprise Management Tool supporting Fedora?

[John Summerfield]

Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this must have been discussed before but I can't find a clear answer
> with Google so here it goes:
> 
> In large corporate/enterprise environments with hundreds or thousands
> workstations and laptops a centralized management tool is a must and
> any home-made scripting solution hacked by those two geeks working in
> the basement is too fragile solution so something proven and tested
> would be needed.
> 
> For RHEL there's RHN/Satellite Server (1) which probably works, for
> Ubuntu there's Blueprint (2) coming, but is there anything that would
> support at least a mixture of Fedora/CentOS installations and is
> available free (in all meanings, ruling Satellite Server out)? Probably
> something like Yum + Cfengine could be bended to do most of the work
> but as said having a home made system for managing thousands of systems
> doesn't sound a bright idea. And just going 100% to RHEL is not always
> a solution as many developers will get benefits by using tools present
> in Fedora but not in RHEL and some hardware (especially laptops) are
> hard to get running without using the latest distro available.
> 
> Below is a list I imagine that would be needed, most of these are from
> the Ubuntu Blueprint's requirements:
> 
> 1. Automatic upgrade to a particular version of selected packages
> 2. Kickstart new client machine with the appropriate version of Ubuntu
> (specific to a hardware configuration and role) with all the associated
> packages selected by the IT department of the company
> 3. Ability to change configurations and rules (including firewalls et
> al) centrally and push them to the client machines
> 3a. Ability to execute remote commands on a given set of clients
> 4. Monitor and record list of packages installed in a laptop or
> workstation
> 4a. Any abnormal status reported by e-mail or others means to admins
> 6. Stagger the updates and upgrades so that all machines do not suck-in
> bits at the same time
> 
> So if anyone has suggestions or even experiences with a tool to handle
> these kinds of tasks in large environments it would very interesting to
> hear about them!
> 
> 1) https://www.redhat.com/rhn/
> 2)
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/enterprise-management-features


You might look for systemimager and (I think) systemmanager. Both are 
distro-agnostic, and while I've used neither, I've seen good reports of 
them.

You should also interrogate freshmeat.net



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