System Configuration Management

• Mentor: (add yourself here if you're proposing yourself as a mentor, add a team if relevant)

• Summary: Debian System Management Interface for "Enterprise"

• Required skills:

  • Understanding of systems admin needs.
  • C skills - lightweight
  • being able to prove that P=NP could be beneficial.

• Description: A scalable solution to automate the configuration of many Debian based devices with a focus on interoperability with the enterprise landscape - RedHat, SuSE, and Ubuntu... why not Debian. The solution should be more than managing system images in a data center by offering "OTA technology" such as OMA, WBEN, Puppet, ect and should be beneficial to a wide range of applications from data center to embedded mobile devices. The entry, http://wiki.debian.org/DistributedAdminTool , should be updated to include a survey of available tools across distributions, what is available with Debian, why the selected direction was chosen.

• Applications: