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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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Why is my IIS configuration changing?

We host a customer site (the hardware is at a third party data center, but we administer the software). On several different occasions, the customer has reported a problem with the site, and when I login to the machine I find that the IIS…
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backup mx vs. second dedicated mail server

When I have two servers available, what are the pros and cons for one main mail-server + a backup-MX that only queues mail if main is down two 'dedicated' (possibly identically configured) mail-servers that work as end-points for all domains A…
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Ansible - use host IP as a variable for file copies

I am looking for a way for config management with Ansible. I have the structure repo/1.2.3.4/file.conf. Can Ansible get the IP 1.2.3.4 per host and deploy the file to the host? Using a variable would make the config easier. - copy:…
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SCCM App Catalog won't install applications if started as user other than the one logged in

We have been playing around with SCCM's Application Catalog and have come across an interesting quirk. My manager has directed me to implement the catalog so that software that falls somewhere between the "one-off install" and "needed by the entire…
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SCCM software deployment - does user need to be logged in, or only on the network?

I have a couple of questions of using SCCM to deploy software for a user on a Windows laptop: Does user need to be logged in to the target laptop, or is it sufficient that it is on the corporate network? Or would it be sufficient that the target…
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rudder-agent 3.1 : different output between nodes

I'm using rudder-agent 3.1 (rudder server 3.0.6), when I'm forcing inventory with "rudder agent inventory" I don't have the same output size between node, it's like the verbose was different (see bottom). Any idea ? x@pv2-51b7y:~$ sudo rudder agent…
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rudder 3.0 : EVP_DecryptFinal_ex

I'm using rudder 3.0.x on Raspbian (RPi v2) and I get some strange errors sometime. I'm trying to understand this error message: "EVP_DecryptFinal_ex: error:0606506D:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:wrong final block length". I'm using…
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Using ansible to add users' public keys to one user's authorized_keys file

Trying to add two people's Github public keys to a user's authorized users file. I am able to successfully retrieve the SSH keys: --- - hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local vars: my_users: belminf: "belminf" bob: "tmessins" …
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Ansible/Capistrano with fixed sudo command ("sudo su -")

I have to administer some half-managed servers (monstly CentOS 6), where we are only allowed to login as a regular user, then do "sudo su -" and type the regular user password, and then run the commands within the root shell. I have been searching…
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SCCM 2012 Clients no longer detecting

Here is the scenario I had a fully functioning SCCM 2012 site server with the DP, MP, SUP, Application catalog, etc. roles configured and working. There is only one server on this site. Everything was great but i was not happy with SUP, so i…
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Configuration Manager (SCCM) Clients not updating their status

I have issues where the configuration manager CAS server is showing the clients as "Pending System Restart". When you look at the client it's referring to, it shows the status as having been sent, and no status of restarting pending is shown in the…
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Managing patches to configuration files

I use a configuration management system and, as I believe is common, my CM software simply copy-pastes configuration files to deploy them to my Linux servers, blindly clobbering whatever's there. But for the most part, my config files should just…
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possible solutions for deploying and keeping ubuntu computers up to date (and the same)

I have access to a small linux pool of around 20 computers. I'd like to come up with a simple and easy to configure solution that allows me to deploy the same configuration to new computers distribute software installs to all computers keep all…
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How to generate customized sudoers files in puppet depending on the environment they're deployed to?

the sysadmins are present in the sudoers files of all environments, but other sudoers are not. Different environments all have slightly different sudoers. Most of the time, 90% of users are the same, and 10% vary so we cannot have only one sudoers…
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Good way to store domain CSR and KEY files

For my company I'm starting to manage more and more domains; and with that more and more certificates for those domains. What is a good way to store the basic KEY and CSR files generated? I was considering a git repo on our private code server. This…
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