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Re: Cfengine vs SYSCTL
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Mark . Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: Cfengine vs SYSCTL |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:08:07 +0200 (MEST) |
On 22 Sep, Rasheda M Menzies wrote:
> I am evaluating Cfengine to determine if it can feasibly replace SYSCTL.
>
> Does Cfengine do the following and how?:
>
> 1. Allow software updates/maintenance from a peer node to a peer
> node
> 2. Allow client to pull updates/maintenance
> 3. Allow client to refuse updates or exclude certain filesets/rpm
> packages from updates
1-3: yes
> 4. Recovery to previous state (rollback feature) in case there is
> a problem
4: yes, but probably not in the way you imagine. It often requires
traditionalists to rethink their approach.
> 5. Provide reports that show hardware and software inventories on
> managed nodes
No, not unless you trigger a script to do this. Cfengine is about
shutting up not about coughing up ! :)
M
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- Cfengine vs SYSCTL, Rasheda M Menzies, 2003/09/22
- Re: Cfengine vs SYSCTL,
Mark . Burgess <=