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Re: GNU/Linux - Configuration portability

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 14 Nov 2009 14:31 : \____

> TomB pulled this Usenet boner:
> 
>> As I already said, I'm setting up Nagios to monitor my corporate
>> network. To monitor local statistics such as disk space, processes and
>> users on remote machines, I am using the nrpe plugin.
>>
>> In configuring this I once again got reminded of the fact that
>> configuration on GNU/Linux is extremely portable. After I finished the
>> configuration for the first Linux host, I simply had to distribute the
>> plain-text configuration files to the other hosts (used scp for that),
>> and I was ready to go.
> 
> Surely Nagios would let you broadcast the file rather than using SCP?
> 
>    :-)
> 
>> Configuration on GNU/Linux is a blessing.
> 
> It beats the snot out of the Windows Registry.

When I set up a new box I just copy the home directory (including .files) and I'm done with it.
Everything is a file. All /your/ files are in your home directory.

Nagios helps monitor our server. It sure spreads very quickly everywhere. :-)

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