Managaing over 100 servers spread at different locations

[David Tonhofer]

David Tonhofer wrote:
> chaim.rieger at gmail.com wrote:
>> Clusterssh
>> Webmin (not really recommende)
>> Svn/cvs Syslog-ng
>>   
> - SVN for centrally managing scripts and pushing them out/pulling 
> fixes in (you need an update script to run at each machine)
> - KVM hardware to control the machines' console and if possibly power 
> supply remotely, otherwise you won't be able to test booting and 
> things will fail at the first occasion
> - dancer's shell 
> (http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en) which I 
> haven't tried yet though (on my todo)
> - MRTG or better rrdtool plus associated helper scripts to graph nice 
> curves of machine/OS behaviour (setting up the scripts involves 
> insiduous work, maybe look for a commercial solution)
>
...and rsync for replication and backups of the whole or parts of the 
filesystem.