If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious about a few things.
(A)
How many cobbler objects do you have of each type?
cobbler distro list | wc -l cobbler profile list | wc -l cobbler system list | wc -l cobbler repo list | wc -l
(B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :)
(C) How many cobbler servers do you have?
(D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine.
(E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps)
(F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc)
(G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc)
(H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment?
(I) Feel free to share whatever else you want :)
Basically I'm just curious as to whether system records are in wide use, how many people are using cobbler for repo management, and how many multi-cobbler server setups there are. I'm also a bit curious as to what other apps are in use at the same time, for potential integration/awareness reasons. This can help me better understand where to go in the future, and which corners of things are less relevant to the userbase.
Please reply to me off-list. I'll try to report back some non-identifying aggregrate findings.
Thanks!
--Michael
Hi Mike,
Here you go. Let know if need any more info.
Cheers, joe
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-----Original Message----- From: cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:28 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: [SURVEY] How are you using Cobbler?
If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious about a few things.
(A)
How many cobbler objects do you have of each type?
cobbler distro list | wc -l 1 rhel 5.2
cobbler profile list | wc -l 4 ga,dev,xen,rescue
cobbler system list | wc -l currently we have 37 machines, but once this goes global. There will be a few hundred.
cobbler repo list | wc -l 3 repos, main-distro (static), updates and custom rpms
(B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :)
All rhel 5 systems.
(C) How many cobbler servers do you have? 1 master 4 slaves
(D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine.
finance
(E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps) nothing yet. Looking puppet or home grown, use to use cfengine
(F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc) Yum and satellite/spacewalk
(G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc) nagios
(H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment? VMware and Xen. I do not differentiate any difference between a vm and a physical box. So yes all vms are installed via cobbler. We are only doing full virt, no para virt at this time.
(I) Feel free to share whatever else you want :) I would like to see cobbler backended into mysql or postreg. It would beneficial, at least for my environment, to be able to run reports about systems installs and their respect installation configurations. Also we have the potential to have over 500 boxes in cobbler and I would like something other than flat files to maintain this.
Basically I'm just curious as to whether system records are in wide use, how many people are using cobbler for repo management, and how many multi-cobbler server setups there are. I'm also a bit curious as to what other apps are in use at the same time, for potential integration/awareness reasons. This can help me better understand where to go in the future, and which corners of things are less relevant to the userbase.
Please reply to me off-list. I'll try to report back some non-identifying aggregrate findings.
Thanks!
--Michael
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Michael DeHaan wrote:
How many cobbler objects do you have of each type?
cobbler distro list | wc -l
1
cobbler profile list | wc -l
2
cobbler system list | wc -l
10
cobbler repo list | wc -l
0
(B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :)
10 - with more coming along soon.
(C) How many cobbler servers do you have?
1
(D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine.
ecommerce, hosting
(E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps)
cfengine
(F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc)
yum, rpm
(G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc)
nagios, helix
(H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment?
VMware - not using cobbler yet for this.
I just started using cobbler last week, just built out my first 10 hosts using it yesterday and today and love it :)
Thanks for a great product.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:27:36PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious about a few things.
(A)
How many cobbler objects do you have of each type? cobbler distro list | wc -l cobbler profile list | wc -l cobbler system list | wc -l cobbler repo list | wc -l
I have deployed cobbler in five locations. Each location has two to ten distros, twice that number of profiles (one interactive, one "site defaults" for each distro), no systems, and no repos.
We are using the menu system to select the desired install profile at PXE-boot time.
(B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :)
Clients installed through cobbler range from two at one site to in excess of 90 at another. Between the five sites, probably in the area of 150 computers total.
(C) How many cobbler servers do you have?
One at each of five customer sites.
(D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine.
We are a outsourced systems administration service company. Our customers are mostly ASIC design or software companies.
(E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps)
We don't currently.
(F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc)
Yum if the distribution permits it.
(G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc)
Nagios, munin, cacti.
(H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment?
VMware -- cobbler is used yes, mostly as a test platform for new profile deployments or to perform the initial installation of a reference VM (which would get cloned or copied when distribution was necessary). We are looking at VirtualBox but have not done anything with it thus far.
(I) Feel free to share whatever else you want :)
Michael DeHaan wrote:
Thanks for everyone who sent in the survey info. It's been very helpful and I'd like to hear from everyone who wants to share.
As a reminder, please reply off list.
--Michael
Michael DeHaan wrote:
If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious about a few things.
(A)
How many cobbler objects do you have of each type?
cobbler distro list | wc -l cobbler profile list | wc -l cobbler system list | wc -l cobbler repo list | wc -l
(B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :)
(C) How many cobbler servers do you have?
(D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine.
(E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps)
(F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc)
(G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc)
(H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment?
(I) Feel free to share whatever else you want :)
Basically I'm just curious as to whether system records are in wide use, how many people are using cobbler for repo management, and how many multi-cobbler server setups there are. I'm also a bit curious as to what other apps are in use at the same time, for potential integration/awareness reasons. This can help me better understand where to go in the future, and which corners of things are less relevant to the userbase.
Please reply to me off-list. I'll try to report back some non-identifying aggregrate findings.
Thanks!
--Michael
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
If anyone still wants to send in some data, that would be much appreciated. I will look at consolidating results about what people are using next week and send it out.
Please reply to me and not on-list. Thanks!
The question I also forgot to ask was
(J) Are you using cobbler's DHCP and/or DNS management features?
So answers to that are also welcome. It's going to stay-in but I would like to know how widespread usage is.
Thanks!
--Michael
we're using dhcp mgmt but not dns.
cheers, Harry
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:30 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious about a few things.
(A)
How many cobbler objects do you have of each type?
cobbler distro list | wc -l cobbler profile list | wc -l cobbler system list | wc -l cobbler repo list | wc -l
(B) About how many systems (machines and virtual machines) do you have at your organization that are being managed by Cobbler? Ballpark is ok, if you can't say "a lot" is fine too :)
(C) How many cobbler servers do you have?
(D) Generally, what does your organization do? You can omit this if you want. Short answers like "school", "university", "hosting", "government", "research", "finance", etc are fine.
(E) What do you use for config management if any (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, home grown, proprietary apps)
(F) What do you use for package management if any (yum directly, Satellite, etc)
(G) What do you use for monitoring if any (nagios, proprietary apps, etc)
(H) Are you using virtualization? If so, which (VMware, Xen, KVM, other)? Are you using Cobbler for virtualization deployment?
(I) Feel free to share whatever else you want :)
Basically I'm just curious as to whether system records are in wide use, how many people are using cobbler for repo management, and how many multi-cobbler server setups there are. I'm also a bit curious as to what other apps are in use at the same time, for potential integration/awareness reasons. This can help me better understand where to go in the future, and which corners of things are less relevant to the userbase.
Please reply to me off-list. I'll try to report back some non-identifying aggregrate findings.
Thanks!
--Michael
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
If anyone still wants to send in some data, that would be much appreciated. I will look at consolidating results about what people are using next week and send it out.
Please reply to me and not on-list. Thanks!
The question I also forgot to ask was
(J) Are you using cobbler's DHCP and/or DNS management features?
So answers to that are also welcome. It's going to stay-in but I would like to know how widespread usage is.
Thanks!
--Michael
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
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