I''m new to the group, so apologies in advance if I repeat a question that''s already been asked and answered. First of all, I''m very happy to see an open-source alternative to commercial configuration automation tools. My question is this: I manage a collection of tools with web-based administration. They have no external config files, and store their config data in the same database as user data. I would like to apply configuration management and automation to these tools. Has anyone faced and solved this problem? TIA, Jeff _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users
Hi Jeff On 21/09/2007, Sussna, Jeff <jsussna@ibsys.com> wrote:> > I''m new to the group, so apologies in advance if I repeat a question that''s > already been asked and answered. First of all, I''m very happy to see an > open-source alternative to commercial configuration automation tools. My > question is this: I manage a collection of tools with web-based > administration. They have no external config files, and store their config > data in the same database as user data. I would like to apply configuration > management and automation to these tools. Has anyone faced and solved this > problem?A colleague of mine had to automate from the command line some install-and-configure-with-a-web-interface stuff. He ended up using wget. Not pretty, but it worked for him. HTH Gary -- Gary Law
"Sussna, Jeff" <jsussna@ibsys.com> said:> I''m new to the group, so apologies in advance if I repeat a question > that''s already been asked and answered. First of all, I''m very happy to > see an open-source alternative to commercial configuration automation > tools. My question is this: I manage a collection of tools with > web-based administration. They have no external config files, and store > their config data in the same database as user data. I would like to > apply configuration management and automation to these tools. Has > anyone faced and solved this problem?databases are difficult to put in subversion/git/mercurial repositories, which is why i personally favor files. search the archives for iClassify - which will get you a long way, as to configure a host via a webinterface (using puppet)... http://www.hjksolutions.com:5004/ kind regards Thilo> > TIA, > Jeff_______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users
On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Sussna, Jeff wrote:> I''m new to the group, so apologies in advance if I repeat a > question that''s already been asked and answered. First of all, I''m > very happy to see an open-source alternative to commercial > configuration automation tools. My question is this: I manage a > collection of tools with web-based administration. They have no > external config files, and store their config data in the same > database as user data. I would like to apply configuration > management and automation to these tools. Has anyone faced and > solved this problem?I haven''t seen anyone else solve this problem specifically, but it shouldn''t be all that hard to create some native Puppet types to do this. -- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com