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Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization. This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it.

Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization.

This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it, such as , , and .

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Is there a method or application which compares server configurations?

I have windows staging and live servers for hosting our companies asp .net web applications. Recently, there have been issues with changes existing between the staging environment and the live environment that have only been discovered during the…
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How do big internet shops manage hosting services provisioning and configuration?

We're starting to expand our hosting business and I'm wondering how big hosting providers manage their services, like creating directory structures and configurations in email servers, web servers, db servers, and the like, in conjunction with…
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Cataloging web/db/app servers in an organisation - Excel/Wiki/?

I've inherited "ownership" of various servers (the hardware itself and server software that runs on in - lots of Apache/Oracle/MySQL) with a wide variety of configurations. I'm a developer - I've been thrown into a Team Leader/Systems Support role…
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configuration Manager PXE boot all machines

Im wonder how to configure Config Manager 2007 R2 to allow PXE boot to all machines (Its password protected) without every user getting a message saying they can install windows. I would consider it acceptable if the users can reinstall windows on…
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Network configuration tools for Debian (or ubuntu)

During the initial Debian setup, we are asked simple questions to configure network interfaces. I would like to know is there are some interactive (but something terminal-based, no X11) tools to do the same but after this initial installation. For…
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Used SQL Svr 2008 Config Manager to Set Service Account to Local System: What Did It Change?

Direct shot to foot moment... While setting-up individual non-admin accts for MSSQLSERVER services, I temporarily set Server service login to Local System account. I remembered later that: SQL Server Configuration Manager performs additional…
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Are there any good references coparing Software Development CM best practices to IT CM best practices?

I have spent my career on the software development side of things and in the latter part have become more and more involved in the realm of Software Configuration Management. Now I am moving into an IT group and need to ramp up on CM practices from…
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Centralised configuration management for basic linksys routers?

Does anyone know if its possible to install a custom router firmware, such as dd-wrt and then use a central config management tool to push/pull changes? The setup here involves each office having their own router, and as the 'ISP' we need to…
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Linux clustering over WAN links

I am working on a project that would require the following : - Central administration of multiple servers over multiple locations - Secure connections between multiple locations - Manage multiple servers configurations FACT There will be from…
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Practice of high frequency scheduled Ansible playbook runs

I'm fairly new to administrating servers with configuration managers such as Ansible. I plan on running playbooks automatically on a schedule (via something like Ansible Semaphore, or even just Cron) with high frequency (like every 30 minutes or…
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CouchDB deleted database shards

Currently running clustered CouchDB v3.1.1 on an AWS EC2 Instance q=2 n=3 Number of Nodes: 1 I have moved the database directory to another drive on my VM. But can't find any on the documents regarding the files under /var/lib/couchdb/shards or…
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How to handle and avoid unmanaged system state with configuration management?

When managing the state of a server using a configuration management tool (e.g. salt, puppet, ansible), one can quite easily develop 'unmanaged' state through application of successive versions of the configuration. For example, one could go…
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How to do a git push using ansible

I'm using Ansible to make a pull i do this tasks: - name: pull from git git: repo: git@gitlab.com:xyz.git dest: /root/Development/abc update: yes version: master Note: Here the remote user is root My…
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Breaking down one prometheus.yml file?

I am using Prometheus for our monitoring and I have a lot of configs (our prometheus.yml main config file is 8000+ lines long). I would like to divide this out into logical groupings so that it becomes much readable. I came to know that Prometheus…
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dividing line between developer and sysadmin for server patch management

I know this question probably doesn't go here. but I dont know which overflow site to use. We have a web server that we use for customers to access our things. Our IT/security team believes it is on my developer to keep the system patched for…
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