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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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How do I easily manage 22 almost identical Debian servers at once?

So I have 22 servers, all running the same OS, the same user accounts, the same software and so on and so forth. The only actual differences are the IP address and the hostname. When programming, most people prefer having a central place with…
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Any good yum repository management dashboards?

I'm currently managing hundreds of CentOS/Amazon Linux servers, and our homegrown tools for managing the myriad package versions seems inadequate and unnecessary. What I'm looking for is a tool that each server would connect to and would then report…
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Altiris gets Disabled?

We use Altiris for software deployment at our organization. Sometimes when we remove a piece of software altiris will turn gray and every feature is disabled in it. The only way to fix that is to reinstall it. Does anyone know why it happens and…
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Office 2007 New Message Window Does Not Respond

I am using Windows XP and every time I open the new message window in Office 2007 the window can't be dragged, can't be closed by clicking on the window. I can close or move or maximize the window by right clicking on the taskbar. Some other…
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Altiris Deployment Console and PXE booting over multiple vlans

I am rebuilding a 2008 server with sql 2008 and altiris Deployment console 6.9 sp2. It is working now however I am trying to get the clients to be able to pxe boot and load an image from altiris no matter which vlan they are on. We have about 8…
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Arbitrary software configuration management with Puppet?

I am evaluating Puppet as a potential replacement for an in-house software configuration and distribution system. I am looking for advice on whether Puppet can satisfy certain requirements for performing node-specific, arbitrary and sometimes ad-hoc…
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Anyone run into issues updating Altiris Deployment Solution to SP2?

We're going to be updating our Altiris Deployment Solution (build 365) to SP2 (build 375) and wanted to know if any of you have done so yet. Were there any issues or hiccups you came across? Thanks.
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storing nagios configuration data in oneCMDB

I want to store my nagios configuration data into oneCMDB(configuration management database). What i trying to achieve is i will be developing a GUI app in which one can edit the configurations and that configurations will be stored into the…
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How do you handle ad hoc configuration?

We use Puppet (or Chef) to script out commissioning of the new servers for different roles as well as configuration of the software that is deployed on those. However, how do you handle ad hoc configuration changes like changing a log level or Db or…
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Configuration Manager sub site codes

I have two sub-sites set up in configuration manager. When the SCCM agent installs on the client machines within the boundaries of those sub sites they are assigned the site code of the Primary site, not the sub site code. As a result their…
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Apache configuration in production environment

I have an apache configuration (the test version) that is working good. When I pass to production configuration, my clients says that they have the error 400 bad request when requesting web services hosted in the server (wsdl/soap). My question is…
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Tools to use for ec2 instance management

I am looking over couple of tools for managing the ec2 instances: Requirement: 1) I should be able to spin-off a new instance and the new instance get all the configurations required. 2) I should be able to make changes on all machines in one go…
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Sync Files Between Windows Machines

I'm looking for a solution to sync files automatically across a number of windows operating systems, including Windows Server 2003, 2008 and Windows 7. One of the use cases would be keeping Nagios config files in sync across a number of…
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Using MCollective to run Puppet

I have to administrate a big cluster of servers in the cloud and now I want to automate the installation process of these machines. Therefore I use puppet as configuration management system. I want to push configurations from the master node to the…
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Aliasing (local) in Sql Server

I've not read (much) into SQL Server aliasing, it feels like a good, simple way to avoid managing configurations across multiple environments (developing on (local) instance, but production is a DbServerName\Instance), and test environments have…
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