[Gllug] Change Management tools

[Wayne Allen]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:20:18PM +0100, Huw wrote:
> >
> > linux package management tools (e.g. deb and rpm) track that kind of
> > info. It wouldn't be very difficult to poll the package DBs on each host
> > and dump the pertinent info into a central database.
>
> That's not enough even for change tracking, let alone change management.
> Using a revision control system to track /etc, for example, allows
> sysadmins a) to check whether the machine they are working on is in a
> consitent, approved state, b) to roll back to a previous state if
> they've messed something up and c) having made successful changes, to
> check in the new consistent state, adding in comments to explain what
> has been done.  In a production environment, you might make the changes
> to a test system, check the changes in and then use the rcs tool to pull
> them down to the live servers.

SVK looks interesting as one of the issues we have had with CVS is the CVS
folders. cfengine also looks interesting... I wonder if I can intergrate
both?

Wayne
 >
> It is also possible to integrate change management tools like cfengine
> with a revision control system.
>
> --
> Bruce
>
> What would Edward Woodward do?
>
Shoot the bad guy!!!!

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