Maximum RPM
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
SmartFrog Meets LCFG: Autonomous Reconfiguration with Central Policy Control
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
MPISH: A Parallel Shell for MPI Programs
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 18 - Volume 19
Virtual workspaces: Achieving quality of service and quality of life in the Grid
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Configuration tools: working together
LISA '05 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference - Volume 19
A case study in configuration management tool deployment
LISA '05 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference - Volume 19
PoDIM: a language for high-level configuration management
LISA'07 Proceedings of the 21st conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference
Shadow configuration as a network management primitive
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
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This paper describes the automatic installation and configuration system currently being used to manage several hundred Linux machines in the Division of Informatics at Edinburgh University. This is a development of the LCFG system which has been used successfully for several years under Solaris. The introduction provides some background on the general problem of large-scale configuration, together with a short comparison of typical solutions, and a brief description of the original LCFG system. The specific changes required to support Linux are then discussed; in particular, the issues of installation bootstrapping, and the updaterpms program. This automatically synchronises client software packages with a specification in the central database. We describe how the system is used in practice, and how it enables us to automatically maintain large numbers of machines with very diverse and evolving configurations. Some future plans are then discussed, including a major reworking of the LCFG implementation, LDAP integration, and our intention to make the technology more widely available.