[ale] Linux Provisioning

[Bob Toxen]

The best way is to hire an experienced Linux consultant such as myself
to help.

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Prentice Hall, (C) 2001, 700 pages

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:57:40PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I have been thinking about how to manage a reasonably large number of
> Linux boxes recently. (100+ machines)  All connected via WAN.  
> 
> Is the patch and upgrade process I'm most concerned with.
> 
> I just saw that redhat has started selling a tool that may work:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/provisioning/
> 
> Are there other provisioning tools out there.  Any opensource?
> 
> Greg
> -- 
> Greg Freemyer
> 
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