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

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Graham Stewart
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 wrote:
> 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 ...
>

Oddly TSM and Websphere are fairly automation friendly. In fact I
would mind having a TSM install to work with just to be able to write
a proper lwrp for it. Maybe it's rose-colored glasses but I actually
enjoyed my ADSM/TSM days.

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> On 13-04-09 09:13 AM, Castleberry, Bobby wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:08 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
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>>> 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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