On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Adam Stokes <adam.stokes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ive been reading up on the different automated configuration
applications and 2 of the major ones only provide limited support for
Windows.
Puppet has an experimental project for accessing manifests. It is kind
of pointless as it only has the capability of altering files and not
the registry.
CFengine seems to have some registry support but again is limited.
There seems to be some sort of Microsoft System Center application
that may do the same as the others, but that is probably a whole other
beast in itself.
So the question is should we only write this agent with Linux in mind?
In a word: No.
Its not hard to write something that talks to the registry (our agents
do this already).
There is also nothing forcing us to use the same back-end for all
OSes. This is why the API call takes a standard as well as a URI.