Maintaining Linux Desktop (RH WS 3.0)

[Stuart Sears]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 11:22, rm -rf Slash wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am working in a big company with more than 600 Linux
> workstations and I am searching right now for a
> program or a way to maintain the workstations and
> update them (rpms, files...) when I want.
>
> Is there anyway to do all that? I only found apt.
sounds like a job for Red Hat Network - although with that many hosts you 
would be best using at the very least an RHN Proxy server.
with this set up properly you would need an external RHN account for each of 
your machines (do you have this already?) and could use up2date to keep each 
system 'patched'.
if you want to provide your hosts with specific files as well, there are a 
number of ways to do this:
cfengine is one
cvs and custom scripts another
the RHN provisioning module is a third
an RHN Proxy server with a custom channel set up, with the relevant files 
built as noarch rpms is a fourth.
(an exercise for the reader, methinks...)

Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX