configuration management tool for Linux

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

Eugene Gorelik wrote:
> I wonder if anyone could recommend a decent centralized configuration
> management tool.
> 
> In my environment I have multiple RedHat servers with identical
> configuration and let's say that I need to change one a value in the same
> configuration file on all of them.
> Currently I am running scripts which are using SSH to go through all these
> servers and make this change, but I am looking for more organized approach,
> which would allow me to create some customized rules and policies and
> manage
> configurations from one place.
> 
> I saw one tool which could do that - *Cfengine
> **http://www.cfengine.org/*<http://www.cfengine.org/>
> and heard mixed opinions about it, so I am curious if anyone is using
> *Cfengine
> *or can recommend any other tools.

A long time ago I was a fan of Webmin
http://www.webmin.com/

They have some "cluster" operations where you can do the same operation on a
bunch of machines.

YMMV, like I said, I haven't used it in a while.  But it looks like it's still
actively developed.

Matt

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