RES: RES: NRPE question

[Kevin Scott Sumner]

Once you get into using cron for pulls and scripts to automate 
configuration, it's probably time you start thinking about cfengine or 
something like it.  I hate to sound like a broken record, but cfengine et 
al have already built the wheel you're trying to reinvent with 
cron/scripts.

Also, I think you can make machines do updates from one central source if 
you setup the correct daemons, along with having them start regular runs 
from cron.  With this setup, you get the benefit of routine pulls along 
with initiated pulls (essentially a push) whenever you need it.  Check on 
cfexecd, if your interested.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Sumner
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Assistant Systems Administrator
Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Hari Sekhon wrote:

> Dario B. Bestetti wrote:
>>> I can see what you are saying, but do you have any *nix servers running
>>> nrpe that do not have ssh and rsync?
>>>
>>> I certainly don't. It's pretty much standard on every linux system for
>>> example, even the tight and minimalist gentoo...
>>>
>>> -h
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hari Sekhon
>>>
>>
>> Yes, not us, but our customers and we want to be less "invasive" as possible...
>>
>> []s
>> Dario
>
> What about a cronned pull from a central location then? This is the
> "pull" rather than the "push" but it's less instant.
>
> I think by the time you start doing that though, perhaps cfengine might
> be better, I've heard good things about it, just not got round to using
> it yet.
>
> -h
>
> -- 
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
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