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tmelcher at saionline.com 12/08/06 5:10 PM >>> -----Original Message----- From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:pwilliamson at mandtbank.com] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:58 PM To: henrik at hswn.dk; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Configuration database backend.

I use cfengine to distribute my host files to my different machines. I have 8 machines. Having a database to manage configuration would be a mistake IMHO.

Paul

Agreed, a database would be overkill in an environment that small. Ours is getting large and with the potential of 1000's of servers and 50 - 100 administrators, the hobbit-alerts.cfg file and hobbit-clients.cfg file are getting unmanageable. Ecspecialy as admins come and go, hard to figure out who entries for emails addresses and pager notifications is current. Clumping them into groups has helped but its still getting cumbersome.

Trent Melcher Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Securities America Financial Corporation (402) 399-9111 x2774 tmelcher at saionline.com

Small? I don't think I was clear - that's 8 server machines - not clients. I've got about 10k clients feeding it. The 8 machines are a combination of server, pager and display machines.

Paul