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Infrastructure Architecture and Automated Systems Administration; techniques, tools, and community.

Cfengine - an adaptive configuration engine

About Cfengine. Cfengine, or the configuration engine is an autonomous agent and a middle to high level policy language and agent for building expert ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

The Enterprise Infrastructures workshop at LISA 2003 is full. I can't accept new registrations, and I'm having to turn away good people -- I hate that. ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Authentication Servers. Prerequisites: Directory Servers. We want a single point of authentication for our users. We prefer either LDAP or NIS. ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Ad Hoc Change Tools. Push-based ad hoc change tools such as r-commands and expect scripts are detrimental to use on a regular basis. ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Directory Servers. Prerequisites: Host Install Tools. You'll need to provide your client machines with hostname resolution, UID and GID mappings, ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Client Application Management. Prerequisites: Client Configuration Management. Everything up to this point has been substrate for applications to run on ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Client O/S Update. Prerequisites: Network File Servers, File Replication Servers. Vendors are waking up to the need for decent, large scale operating ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Infrastructure Thinking. We found that the single most useful thing a would-be infrastructure architect can do is develop a certain mindset: A good ...

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems ...

Chaos. Outside the systems administration field, it's not well known that computer systems management is generally ad-hoc. Administration tends to be ...