user-eaec2ffb4cbc@xymon.invalid 06/09/05 8:43 AM >>>
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:26 -0400, Deal, Richard wrote:
I would really like to have the option of a client on the unix
world.
Having a central machine poll all of the clients constantly a far
less
distributed system than running remote clients. I prefer a locally
run
client from an NFS mounted area were I can centrally control each
with
the config files.
This can work if all your machines are the same architecture and
library
versions etc, but it soon falls apart. Also you are relying on your
network + NFS for the monitoring system to actually work, which isn't
a
good presumtion.
For little extra work, you can simply push out the config files/etc
via
some ssh/scripting....
cfengine works perfectly for me to do this...
Paul