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#8 Re: Question: Administrating multiple workstations Posted by peterhoeg (62.242.xx.xx) on Thu 28 Apr 2005 at 08:26 I second sytoka's comment on cfengine. I use it myself for my home set up - it is incredibly powerful although fairly tricky to get up and running. But once it is there, it is extremely powerful. If you have a number of completely identical machines, then systemimager is probably better for you, but when you are talking about multiple different types of machines, cfengine is unbeatable. As an example - I use it for configuration files on my workstation and laptops (special configuration for the laptops) as well as my server. Apart from making administration a breeze, it also really helps backing up everything as NO changes are done locally, as cfengine controls everything and then I just need to back up the central cfengine files instead of configuration on each client. A complete reinstallation can be done almost without any intervention!!

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