Dear Linux Geek Lazywebz...

[bjarvis]

My Dear Employer is looking for a Linux-based software tool for auto-provisioning our x86 hardware systems (mostly HP and IBM blades) with Linux and Solaris. Naturally, they're not looking to spend money.

One on my team suggested Cobbler (https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/) but has no experience with it. Any opinions on Cobbler or other packages?

Comments

[cpj.livejournal.com]

The cobbler WEB UI is mostly a front-end to Kickstart. And it's not all that intuitive. IE, it just takes web form input and shoves it in front of command lines.

How many systems are you talking about? I'd recommend looking at OpsCenter.