discuss: Thread: New user, new topic

Hello,

My name is Fernando César, I am a student of Computer Engineering at 
Técnico Lisbon and I have just registered in LDP wiki (no Spammer!).

About a year ago I joined the team that manages all the computers for 
the Computer Engineering Department in my University Campus. I was 
assigned to manage the Linux "part". We manage about 100- machines with 
dual boot Linux/Windows.

I imagined there would be an immense collection of information 
available about how to do this. Some courses material, as it surely 
exists for Windows. But I have found almost nothing. There is 
information, but you have to know what to look for. For instance, 
recently we decided to start using puppet, a configurations manager. 
There is a lot information about puppet, however, until some months ago, 
we didn't know such software existed. I would like to document my 
experience in solving the day-to-day problems I'm facing. I will not be 
doing a puppet hot-to, but instead a MWM how-to, where configurations 
managers will be a topic (stating they exist, some examples, and how 
they can help).

This is not cluster management, or grid management or even workstation 
network management. The last one because people usually think about DNS 
and DCHP when they see it. I thought I would call it Multiple 
Workstations Management (MWM).

Since I work mostly in Debian I am planning to clone this page in the 
Debian Wiki, where I guess some specifics about that distro would be 
better suited.

I hope you find my project interesting, and encourage it.

Best regards,