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Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization. This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it.

Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization.

This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it, such as , , and .

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Unable to locate switch on network

I have a HP 2530-8G on the network which we cannot log in to as we do not know the management IP address. The MAC address does not appear in any of the DHCP leases so I would assume it is using a static IP. Nor does it appear in any IP scans (e.g.…
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Shutdown Cron during execution of SaltStack

If we update our systems with SaltStack this takes about 40 seconds. During these 40 seconds the state of the system is not consistent. If there are cron jobs which start during this period, it is likely that they produce strange errors. Of course…
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ansible dynamic inventory not working properly

This is for dynamic inventory for use with AWS RHEL 7.3 python2-boto-2.45.0-3.el7.noarch ANSIBLE VERSION ansible 2.3.1.0 config file = /projects/robomation/ansible.cfg configured module search path = Default w/o overrides python version = 2.7.5…
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How to upgrade all nodes packages with Rudder

I'm playing around with Rudder (http://www.rudder-project.org/site/) but can't seem to see an option for what I want. I'd like all packages on the 'nodes' checked for updates then upgraded, the equivalent of 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' on a…
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How to specify chef-client settings on bootstrap?

I'm trying to bootstrap nodes via knife. Executing: knife bootstrap user@server-1 -P XXX --sudo -N java-server-1 I found a bunch of properties in client.rb on the node side that I would like to specify on bootstrap. Is it possible to do it with…
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Copying different config files depending on operating system

I want to distribute different config files depending on the OS version using Ansible. I'd like to distinguish the OS version with the ansible fact ansible_distribution so that I dont have to manually assign an OS version. The problem I have is that…
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Configuration Management tools failover behaviour

I'm currently trying to sell "DevOps" to my management one of the things I'm investigating is Configuration Management tooling. One of the big things for us is that we have a system that has high availability and a good failover behavior. For…
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saltstack: use a Python module in both states and pillar

I have a custom module with a function that i can use in my states like this {% set myvar = salt['mymodule.myfunction']() %} Now I want/need to use it in my pillar. I have tried calling it the same way but I got an error Jinja variable…
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Is there a way to rename a chef cookbook?

My cookbook conflicts with a community cookbook. There doesn't seem to be a knife option to rename or delete a cookbook. Is there a way to delete a chef cookbook from a server or a way to rename an existing cookbook?
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How to secure configuration management server

There are many configuration management software options nowadays (Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, Ansible...) which offer an architecture with their repository on a central server and clients communicating with the server using TCP/IP. This kind of…
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Problems with a script uninstall (SCCM 2012) and its causing the detection method to fail

We use the Powershell Application Deployment Toolkit for deploying applications in SCCM. I'm currently working on uninstalling Sophos VPN from machines in a certain collection in our environment. Here is the uninstall part of the script. The…
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Confused on BigFix relevance - x64 files

I am using BigFix in an Enterprise Environment and noticed a recent round of Microsoft patches for 2016 have failed on a small group of assets. I was able to work around this by creating Custom Copy Fixlets, using modified relevancy, however the…
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Is there a way to change the cfengine policy server IP without re-bootstrapping all the clients?

We need to change the IP address of our cfengine policy server. It will be the same machine, and nothing else will change, it's just going to have a different ip. Is there some way to avoid re-bootstrapping all the client machines to that new…
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Is there a reason to store a SSH private key in a Salt Pillar instead of a file as part of a State?

I have a set of systems (in AWS) that all need passwordless SSH access to one another. I've written a Salt state that copies a keypair (public/private SSH-RSA keys that I previously generated) and adds the appropriate entry to the user's…
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error creating database using ansible on centos 7

I am trying to install mysql AND setup database using ANSIBLE on CentOS7(i have no idea why every documention in the world now ONLY talks about Ubuntu and NO CentOS anymore...really SAD!) here is my create_db.yml file --- - name: Install Python…
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