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*Great for automating tasks via SSH on remote servers, like software installation, application deployment, configuration management, ad hoc server monitoring, and more. *Ideal for system administrators, whether professional or incidental. *Easy to custo

Great for automating tasks via SSH on remote servers, like software installation, application deployment, configuration management, ad hoc server monitoring, and more.

iClassify allows for the easy registration and classification of nodes.

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously disc

ControlTier coordinates the build, deployment, configuration, and management procedures for an entire application stack -- from source code checkout through to a running service. All ControlTier tools are fully free and open source software.

There aren't many systems as powerful or useful in administering a large LAN as cfengine. However the learning curve is pretty steep, which puts a lot of people off using it. In this introduction to cfengine we'll show what kind of things it can do, and h

A look at actually installing it and using it for real on a number of different hosts. The rules will come from one central host and be automatically pushed to a collection of managed servers where they will be executed.