Liveblogging: Automated System Management

Posted June 26th, 2008 by sheeri

Usenix 2008 - Automated System Management, by Æleen Frisch of Exponential Consulting (and numerous books)

What is automation?

generic [perl|shell] scripts with cron,at

Problem: overlap of effort

So folks developed automation systems. General automation tools are around:

cfengine, puppet, cfg2

These are general -- files, directories, etc. Don't need to use chmod and ...

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