Hello,

We are currently looking at "cluster management" software.

I've played around with the Red Hat Cluster manager (on CentOS) and it seems "overkill" for what we need (plus I couldn't get it to work properly).

So thinking it over in my head what we need...and we don't necessarily need a "cluster manager" perse...but more of a "services management"

Here's the scenario:

6 webservers (all hosting the same site) running apache.

I want to login to this "services manager" check off all 6 webservers and click a button that says "restart apache"

Is there software that does something similar? I don't really need all the bells and whistles of a cluster manager...just something so I can manage services on multiple servers.

Any help of advice or "did you google this" would help

For all those using twitter...this is where I"m at

#imlost

Thank You,

-C

Webmin comes with a cluster module. Among other things, from a single node you can issue commands that will execute on all (or some) at once.

Could be as simple as:

Does spacewalk provide a web ui for this? I think so. Outside of a web interface it's pretty trivial, I'd personally use func to do it from a central admin server. it's clearly not actual clustering here either way.

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That's true - "cluster" in this context is a misnomer. It sounds like the real need is for multi-host service monitoring and/or restarting.

Yes at first I was looking at cluster management software...and realized that's not what I need...

I really just need a simple way (web interface preferred) to "manage services" on multiple servers from a central location...

Everything I've been looking at looks like it's overkill for what I need

I'll look into the Webmin cluster module

BTW, I just now had a chance to read about func. In spite of the lackluster (IMO) project name, it sounds pretty good - light, secure, and scriptable via my own favorite scripting language. I'll be giving that a try next, and I would recommend for custangro to do the same.

Webmin is a good solution for the original problem, but func appears to be a substantially lighter-weight solution.

@custangro: I'd be curious to know what you ultimately selected (and why), if you are willing to share.