[hobbit] Configuration database backend.
Trent Melcher Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Securities America Financial Corporation (402) 399-9111 x2774 tmelcher at saionline.com
-----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
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:10:02PM -0600, Trent Melcher wrote:
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.
I don't know if it helps, but you might want to use the "directory" include feature in these config files. I created a ~hobbit/server/etc/alerts/ directory and then put a line "directory alerts" into hobbit-alerts.cfg; this causes all files in the alerts directory to be automatically included in the configuration. Then you can split the configuration into manageable pieces, e.g. one file per logical group of hosts.
Regards, Henrik
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