Systems Manageability Part 3 - Provisioning and Deployment

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Systems Manageability Part Five: Monitoring

Port 25 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:20:19 GMT

This is Part 5, continuation of the series of 8 blogs I’m doing on Systems Manageability. In this specific blog, I will focus on and explain the third part of the “ontology” which is “Monitoring”...

Systems Manageability Part 5: Monitoring

Port 25 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:10:26 GMT

Systems Manageability Part 4: Systems Configuration

Port 25 — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:25:58 GMT

System Configuration and Management encompasses all tasks related to the configuration of a host in a standardized and (when possible) centralized way. Many projects in this category provide a common configuration interface, either command-line or GUI-based,

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boethius — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:14:28 GMT

Kishi: Check the web site (www.fastdeploy.com) and there should be plenty of contact methods there including an email contact form if you're interested in learning more or chatting with me about it. I can probably arrange a demo as well.

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kishi — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:12:57 GMT

beothius - I am really interested in learning more about this. How can we have this discussion offline ?

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kishi — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:11:52 GMT

einhverfr - THANK YOU for the candid comments. Please keep the feedback coming because that's the best way to understand how we add value to the conversation

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einhverfr — Wed, 16 May 2007 02:20:44 GMT

Thanks, Kishi

This is one of the most useful posts I have seen to date here on the matter of provisioning and deployment.

One can also extned the idea of doing PXE boots to actually maintianing single PXE images for certain devices so that provisioning post-install becomes far easier (and you don't even *have* to install-- you just boot off the network).

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boethius — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:14:40 GMT

Kishi: It is indeed open source. Written in PHP. Though I lean toward UNIX/Linux there's no technical reason why you can't use Windows - i.e., no real architecture or underlying OS dependencies. Just need PHP + a web server + TFTP + DHCP + MySQL or other RDBMS. TFTPD32 or the TFTP server used with RIS can be installed and used.

Not sure I'd call it a "toolset" yet. More of a standalone "tool" or "solution" that tries to be inclusive and get the auto-deployment job done entirely. I would like to make its API more transparent and easier to access from a variety of languages and third-party packages (e.g., other server and desktop management solutions). It's a little too self-inclusive and very dependent on HTTP requests to do tasks. That will change someday but other tasks are higher on my priority list.

The audience is basically anyone who wants to automate OS deployment - IT shops of any size, colocation and data centers, dedicated server companies, etc.

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kishi — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:59:10 GMT

Boethius - what you've narrated sounds very interesting. Is this an Open Source project or will this be more of a proprietary offering ? Also, who would you describe as the ideal audience for consuming this toolset you're working on ?

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kishi — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:56:10 GMT

Ajay - you're absolutely correct. Remote BIOS access is still a conundrum to many. Some of the proprietary hardware like iLO board etc. have made a breakthrough in this area but the same options as well as the extent of functions/features are not available inany open source application to that extent.