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Automating mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Environments

For a system administrator, a perfect world would consist of just one type of server that we needed to support and just one tool to do that work. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Many system admins are required to manage day to day operations of very different servers with different operating systems. The complexity gets magnified when you start looking for tools to manage these distinct systems. Looking at how to automate these systems could lead you down a path of one automation tool per OS type. But why? When you can have one central automation platform that can be used for all servers. In this example, we are going to look at managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows servers in one data center by the same group of system administrators. While we are going to cover the use case of managing web servers on both RHEL and Windows in some technical details, be aware that this method can be used for almost any typical operational tasks. 

 

Scenario: Managing the web service on RHEL and Windows

In this scenario, we have a system administrator that is tired of getting calls from the network Continue reading

Automating mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Environments

For a system administrator, a perfect world would consist of just one type of server that we needed to support and just one tool to do that work. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Many system admins are required to manage day to day operations of very different servers with different operating systems. The complexity gets magnified when you start looking for tools to manage these distinct systems. Looking at how to automate these systems could lead you down a path of one automation tool per OS type. But why? When you can have one central automation platform that can be used for all servers. In this example, we are going to look at managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows servers in one data center by the same group of system administrators. While we are going to cover the use case of managing web servers on both RHEL and Windows in some technical details, be aware that this method can be used for almost any typical operational tasks. 

 

Scenario: Managing the web service on RHEL and Windows

In this scenario, we have a system administrator that is tired of getting calls from the network Continue reading