Re: [Radmind-users] Getting started again

[Scott H. <st...@ma...>]

Michael,

I use it the same way though it is not a server and is OS X.  I have a bunch of systems that I allow researchers to come in and use for a week or so to take data and whatever.  At the end I want to reset them to a completely known state with known bolt on applications.

I don’t use the trip wire functionality so much since I allow completely freedom to the visiting researchers to hose a machine.  But I have a simple way of bringing a machine back to a known “clean” state at the end and removing any one researcher email or whatever caches are there automatically.

-Scott

> On Jan 30, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Michael Graziano <mic...@pr...> wrote:
> 
> What I DO care about is that each and every server conform to a standardized template: A known operating system, and bolt-on applications on top of it, and that I be able to verifiably audit each machine for compliance with the specification.
> 
> No package manager I’ve tried makes it *easy* to accomplish the above goals (not even the FreeBSD pkg/pkgng systems) - until one does radmind is the best tool for what we need.
> 
> 
> (Note that I’m probably the oddball on the list since my radmind installation doesn’t manage any Macs - in our environment it fills the role that Puppet and local package mirrors would usually be doing.)