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adam at websitemanagers.com.au 06/09/05 8:43 AM >>> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:26 -0400, Deal, Richard wrote: I would really like to have the option of a client on the unix world.
Having a central machine poll all of the clients constantly a far less distributed system than running remote clients. I prefer a locally run client from an NFS mounted area were I can centrally control each with the config files.

This can work if all your machines are the same architecture and library versions etc, but it soon falls apart. Also you are relying on your network + NFS for the monitoring system to actually work, which isn't a good presumtion.

For little extra work, you can simply push out the config files/etc via some ssh/scripting....

cfengine works perfectly for me to do this...

Paul