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In the last few months I’ve switched from an employer that was on their third generation of configuration management (cfengine phase one, cfengine phase two, to puppet) to an environment that has no configuration management and over 50 servers to manage. I’ve been a user of cfengine for over five years and had just started cutting my teeth on Puppet when I switched jobs so I’m finding it pretty painful to be w/o configuration management. Since my efforts to get CM green lighted have been met with “Yes but we’re too busy for the next few months,” I’m going to have to do some groundwork on my own clock.

One task I’d like to devote to a configuration management system is the distribution of the Nagios NRPE.conf file to my hosts.

Until a couple of weeks ago I only would have looked only at Puppet for my CM, but now there’s Chef on the block so I’m to try giving that a gander. I’ll do a quick deployment of NRPE.conf in my home env with each system, and see how it goes.