[ale] Linux configuration management (validation)?

[Vernard Martin]

On 10/14/2014 7:06 AM, Vernard Martin wrote:
> On 10/14/2014 6:56 AM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
>>
>> Our Linux server environment has grown from 10 RHEL servers to over 
>> 150 RHEL systems in a few short months. I need an easy way to confirm 
>> that they all have the same settings (sshd, time zone, routes, 
>> selinux, etc...) for security purposes.   At the moment I have a 
>> simple bash script (lots of sed and awk!) that prepares a server for 
>> use but I would like something that would be easier to manage and to 
>> be able to turn over to someone else to manage eventually.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Raj Wurttemberg
>>
>> rajaw at c64.us
>>
>>
>
> And there there are the more esoteric ones such as bcfg2, etc. which 
> have very specific design goals past general configuration management.


Quick note on BCFG2. Its specialty is verification of configs :)

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