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Infrastructure Management

I've been a sysadmin far too long and have never managed to stay at a job long enough to get things done they way that I think that they could be.

For now, just an outline and a bunch of links I don't want to forget.

Automated Server Builds

Development and Testing Environment

Databases (MySQL)

Web Server (Apache)

Email (Dovecot / Postfix)

High Availability

Monitoring

Performance and Capacity Planning

Fault Notification

Inspiration & Tools

• http://www.infrastructures.org/

• http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/

• http://mailman.terraluna.org/pipermail/infrastructures/

• http://search.cpan.org/dist/SVN-Notify/

• http://www.nagios.org/

• http://www.rrdtool.org/

• http://cricket.sf.net/

• http://www.cacti.net/

• http://www.splunk.com/

• http://openqrm.org/

• http://zenoss.com/

• http://www.rrdbrowse.org/

• http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/

• http://cosi-nms.sourceforge.net/alpha-progs.html

• AutoCfgBackup - http://hideout.at/page/11

• Osiris - http://www.hostintegrity.com/osiris/

• AsItHappens - http://www.abrahams.co.nz/asithappens/

• Wackamole (3+way heartbeat) - http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/

• Heartbeat - http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStarted/OneIPAddress

• Conc (serial console manager) - http://www.jfc.org.uk/software/conc.html

research 13/07/2006

• http://config.sage.org/ (practical configuration management discussion)

• http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/pipermail/lssconf-discuss/ (theoretical configuration management discussion)

• http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/ (cfengine alternative)

• http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/ (cfengine alternative)

• http://open.controltier.com/ (open source version of control tier)

• http://m23.sourceforge.net/ (debian specific alternative to isconf/cfengine?)

• http://www.zabbix.com/ (nagios+cricket alternative?)

• http://wpkg.org/ (automated software deployment systems for windows using ad or samba)

• http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

• http://labs.8d.com/softs/commitrc/ (config files in svn)

• http://tinyurl.com/hkrl4 (google cache of pdf on configuration management)

• http://tinyurl.com/l46xq (google cache of sage pdf on bcfg2)

• http://www.sundell.net/~alan/projects/slack/ (uses rsync and the idea of roles and subroles for hosts to do centralized configuration management. apparently google uses it)

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