Automation of Site Configuration Management
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
An Improved Approach for Generating Configuration Files from a Database
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on System administration
Process Monitor: Detecting Events That Didn't Happen
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
Generating Configuration Files: The Director's Cut
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Splat: A Network Switch/Port Configuration Management Tool
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Meta Change Queue: Tracking Changes to People, Places, and Things
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
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Maintaining the printing configuration files for a large site (400 machines, 60 public printers, 40 private printers, 30 print spoolers) can be a major job. At RPI, we developed a system that will automatically generate the printer configuration file for any machine, depending on what printers are driven by that machine. It also allows us to only have a printer appear only on a subset of machines, rather than on all machines. This paper describes the design and deployment of the system. We use a relational database to manage the printer information, printer type attributes, host grouping and to track hosts using the system. All sources and related information are available for anonymous FTP.