[chef] Re: Re: Cookbooks for installing certain Enterprise products?

[Graham Stewart < >]

Comparable to NetBackup, we've written cookbooks for installing IBM 
Tivoli Storage Manager Client on Redhat and Ubuntu hosts.  It includes 
defining backup nodes on the TSM server, associating them with backup 
schedules, etc.

This was about 18 months ago and I'd probably write the recipes somewhat 
differently now, but it's fabulous to have that process fully automated. 
 I'll get this up on Github soon ...

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On 13-04-09 09:13 AM, Castleberry, Bobby wrote:
> I can only speak for Oracle RAC but I would guess it's much the same
> situation with the other commercial software installers.  We attempted
> to do automation with setting up Oracle RAC but ran into issues getting
> the install automated so it looks like we only automated the setting up
> of kernel parameters (kernel.shmmax, net.core.rmem_max, etc),
> pre-requisite linux packages (gcc, compat-db, libaio-devel, etc) and
> oracle users.   I would guess with products like this your not going to
> find much in the way of automation unless somehow the companies
> themselves get convinced to make their software more friendly to being
> automated.  Microsoft has been trying to push companies to MSI (1999)
> installation to allow automation on their platform and they are still
> getting resistance.  So if the 800 lb gorilla can't make it happen in 14
> years you can guess what our chances are. That is just all the more
> reason to push everything to open source.  As I keep annoying our DBA's
> with, have you tried Postgres?
>
>
> Bobby Castleberry
>
> On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:08 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I'm sure that lots of people have done automated installs for this
> > kind of software, but I'm wondering if I'm missing anything when it
> > comes to finding existing Chef cookbooks for deploying any of the
> > following:
> >
> > WebLogic
> > Oracle RAC
> > LogRhythm
> > NetBackup
> >
> > I haven't found anything obvious on the Chef community cookbook site
> > or on github, so I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone knows of any
> > other good sources.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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