Bcfg2
Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system
administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems
in a coherent and transparent fashion.
Bcfg2 produces a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable
description of their environment, and offers visualization and
reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.
The software is based on a client / server architecture. The
client is responsible for interpreting (but not processing) the
configuration served by the server, and uses almost no
client side processing. It renders a declarative configuration
specification, provided by the Bcfg2 server, into a set of
configuration operations which will, if executed, attempt to change the
client's state into that described by the configuration specification.
The Bcfg2 server is responsible for taking a network
description and turning it into a series of configuration
specifications for particular clients. It also manages probed data and
tracks statistics for clients.
Bcfg2 1.2.2
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Price
Free to download
Size
1.9MB
License
BSD License
Developer
Narayan Desai, Joey Hagedorn, Ed Smith, Rick
Bradshaw, Ken Raffenetti, Scott Behrens, Cory Lueninghoener, Chris
Vuletich, and others
Website
bcfg2.org
System Requirements
libxml2
libxslt
Python
lxml or elemnttree
python-apt
debsums
gamin or fam
M2crypto
Support
Sites:
Manual,
Documentation,
Mailing
List
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Manages complete system configuration
- Metadata based client configurations
- Change detection
- Improved server performance
- 2 way configuration verification
- Sparse configuration installation
- Probes
- Dry-run mode
- Profiles
- Configuration specifications are designed to be reusable
- Machine functionality can be easily duplicated for testing
or
upgrades
- Changes are made in a single location
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Last Updated Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT
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