RE: [hobbit] Current development plans

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson (at) mandtbank.com>]

>>> 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